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Panchayat town in Tamil Nadu, India

Omalur

Omalur is a panchayat town in Salem district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

Omalur
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The place

Omalur is a panchayat town in Salem district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is one of the 31 panchayat towns in the district, and the administrative seat of Omalur taluk. Spread across an area of 5.5 km2 (2.1 sq mi), it had a population of 16,279 individuals as per the 2011 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Omalur

2 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.

  1. 01
    Periyar University

    Periyar University is a university in Salem, Tamil Nadu, India. It was established by the Government of Tamil Nadu in 1997.

    4.5 km · state public university in Salem, Tamil Nadu, India · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Government College of Engineering, Salem

    The Government College of Engineering, Salem in Salem, Tamil Nadu, India, is an engineering education center in the state of Tamil Nadu. It is one of the three institutions offering Metallurgical Engineering as a full-time course in Tamil Nadu.

    5.7 km · Engineering college in Tamil Nadu, India · Wikipedia

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Getting to Omalur

Airports
Tiruchirappalli (TRZ), 131 km · Coimbatore (CJB), 135 km · Kempegowda Bengaluru (BLR), 166 km
Stations
Salem Airport, 4.5 km · Omalur Junction railway station, 800 m
  • Tiruchirappalli → Omalur
    125 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · ₹980–1,230
  • Coimbatore → Omalur
    143 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · ₹1,080–1,350
  • Bengaluru → Omalur
    145 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · ₹1,120–1,410
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Omalur

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 Omalur. 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
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    194 km
  2. 02
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    194 km
  3. 03
    NelliyampathyIN

    7 ways of moving, 26 sources

    201 km
  4. 04
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    210 km
  5. 05
    ThekkadyIN

    8 ways of moving, 14 sources

    263 km

If you know how people move in Omalur – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Omalur

Omalur is 16 km from Salem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.