Mangavilai
Mangavilai is a village in Kanyakumari district of Tamil Nadu, India.

Mangavilai is a village in Kanyakumari district of Tamil Nadu, India. It is administered under Dharmapuram Panchayat, and is located 9 km away from Nagercoil, the district headquarters of Kanyakumari. The name Mangavilai means 'indestroyable fame'.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Mangavilai
4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Padmanabhapuram Palace
Padmanabhapuram Palace, also known as Kalkulam Palace, is a Travancore-era palace located in Padmanabhapuram in the Kanyakumari district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The palace is owned, controlled and maintained by the Kerala Government.
3.5 km · palace in Travancore · Wikipedia - 02
- 03St. Antony's Church, Chemmanvilai
St. Antony's Church, Chemmanvilai[1] is a Roman Catholic Church located in Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu, India.
1.6 km · church in Chemmanvilai · Wikipedia - 04Noorul Islam Centre for Higher Education
Noorul Islam Centre for Higher Education, formerly Noorul Islam College of Engineering, is a private co-educational Institution in Kumarakovil, Thuckalay, Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India. The institution was founded in 1989 by A.P. Majeed Khan and it was declared as a Deemed to be University by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt.
2.4 km · University in India · Wikipedia
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Getting to Mangavilai
- Airports
- Thiruvananthapuram (TRV), 55 km · Cochin (COK), 238 km
- Thiruvananthapuram → Mangavilai65 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · ₹510–630
- Kochi → Mangavilai239 km · quickest by road, 5h 50m · ₹1,890–2,360
- Coimbatore → Mangavilai325 km · quickest by road, 7h 49m · ₹2,830–3,540
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Mangavilai
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Mangavilai. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundAutorickshaws, taxis and local buses are easily available.
From Wikivoyage: Nagercoil, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.
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Next door to Mangavilai
Mangavilai is 52 km from Thiruvananthapuram, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- MandaikaduVillage in Kanniyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India2.7 km
- KumarapuramVillage in Kanniyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India2.7 km
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