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Neighbourhood in Tambaram, Tamil Nadu, India

Medavakkam

Medavakkam is a southern suburb of Chennai in Tambaram City of Chengalpattu district, which is adjacent to the neighbourhoods of Sholinganallur, Madipakkam, Selaiyur, Keelkattalai, Velachery and Tambaram and it is center place to the developing suburbs like Ponmar, Ottiyambakkam and Sithalapakkam.

Medavakkam
Medavakkam · Timothy A. Gonsalves
The place

Medavakkam is a southern suburb of Chennai in Tambaram City of Chengalpattu district, which is adjacent to the neighbourhoods of Sholinganallur, Madipakkam, Selaiyur, Keelkattalai, Velachery and Tambaram and it is center place to the developing suburbs like Ponmar, Ottiyambakkam and Sithalapakkam. Medavakkam is administered by Village Panchayat, which comes under the Shollinganallur MLA Constituency and South Chennai MP Constituency. Medavakkam will be part of Tambaram City Municipal Corporation. This location is a fast developing residential locality due to its close proximity to the IT corridor OMR and SEZ in Medavakkam Sholinganallur Road.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Medavakkam

One place 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.

  1. 01
    Jerusalem College of Engineering, Chennai

    Jerusalem College of Engineering is an autonomous engineering college located in Chennai, India, established in the 1995. The college is part of the Jerusalem Educational Trust, which was formed and registered in 1993.

    3.5 km · engineering college in Tamil Nadu, India · Wikipedia

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Getting to Medavakkam

Airports
Chennai (MAA), 8 km · Tirupati (TIR), 106 km · Kempegowda Bengaluru (BLR), 271 km
  • Tirupati → Medavakkam
    116 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · ₹1,020–1,280
  • Bengaluru → Medavakkam
    282 km · quickest by road, 5h 3m · ₹2,050–2,560
  • Tiruchirappalli → Medavakkam
    285 km · quickest by road, 4h 58m · ₹1,980–2,480
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Medavakkam

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 Medavakkam. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    441 km
  2. 02
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    445 km
  3. 03
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    456 km
  4. 04
    NelliyampathyIN

    7 ways of moving, 26 sources

    465 km
  5. 05
    HampiIN

    8 ways of moving, 18 sources

    484 km

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Around it

Next door to Medavakkam

Medavakkam is 20 km from Ambattur, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • JalladiampetVillage in Kanchipuram District, Tamil Nadu, India1.7 km
  • SembakkamVillage in Kanchipuram District, Tamil Nadu, India3.2 km
  • Pallikaranaineighborhood in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India3.3 km
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  • Kovilambakkamhuman settlement in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India3.3 km