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Village in Puducherry, India

Veerampattinam

Veerampattinam is the largest coastal village in the union territory of Puducherry situated between Pondicherry and Cuddalore.

Veerampattinam
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The place

Veerampattinam is the largest coastal village in the union territory of Puducherry situated between Pondicherry and Cuddalore. The village is 7 km away from the Pondicherry city centre and frequent bus services are available from Pondicherry for almost once in every 10–15 minutes. The population of the village is more than 10,000.. Around 5,000 people are registered as voters with the Election Commission of India.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Veerampattinam

3 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
    Meeran Mosque

    Meerapalli is a Sufi mosque in Pondicherry, in the union territory of Puducherry, India. It was constructed during the first quarter of the 18th century and is the oldest standing mosque in Pondicherry.

    3.8 km · mosque in India · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Eden Beach Puducherry

    Eden Beach is a beach located in Chinna Veerampattinam, Puducherry, India. It is one of the twelve Indian beaches certified with the Blue Flag award by the Foundation for Environment Education, Denmark.

    2.4 km · beach in Puducherry, India · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Indira Gandhi Sports Stadium

    Indira Gandhi Sports Stadium, home of Kabali FC is a main sports stadium in union territory of Puducherry in India. The stadium has facilities of football and hockey field, apart from the facilities of Indoor arena.

    3.1 km · building in India · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Veerampattinam

Airports
Chennai (MAA), 127 km · Tiruchirappalli (TRZ), 174 km · Tirupati (TIR), 196 km
Stations
Pondicherry railway station, 3.4 km
  • Chennai → Veerampattinam
    142 km · quickest by road, 3h 16m · ₹1,130–1,410
  • Tiruchirappalli → Veerampattinam
    172 km · quickest by road, 3h 29m · ₹1,300–1,630
  • Tirupati → Veerampattinam
    199 km · quickest by road, 4h 18m · ₹1,510–1,890
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Veerampattinam

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inAuto-rickshaws are available from outside the bus station.
  • Get inYou can also take a 30-minute auto rickshaw from the airport to the centre of town.
  • Get inThe rate for taking an auto rickshaw from within the airport complex to the city centre is about ₹150, as of Apr 2013.
  • Get aroundThere is a sparse network of buses and shared auto-rickshaws that can be ridden for ₹5-20 per ride depending on the distance.
  • Get aroundShared-auto-rickshaws can be found at the bus stand, along certain points on Bussy Road and Grand Canal - the most common route is from the bus stand, along Bussy Road, around Grand Canal, and then back up Bussy Road to the bus stand - but be sure to ask if the auto goes to your destination as not all autos will follow this route.

From Wikivoyage: Pondicherry, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    339 km
  2. 02
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    343 km
  3. 03
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    353 km
  4. 04
    NelliyampathyIN

    7 ways of moving, 26 sources

    375 km
  5. 05
    ThekkadyIN

    8 ways of moving, 14 sources

    389 km

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

Around it

Next door to Veerampattinam

Veerampattinam is 4 km from Puducherry, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.