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Also known as: Tiruvanantapuram, Trivandrum

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Last Updated: Jan 16, 2025 • Article History

Also spelled:: Tiruvanantapuram

Formerly:: Trivandrum

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Centre of Excellence status for Thiruvananthapuram Medical College • Jan. 10, 2025, 7:06 AM ET (The Hindu)

National Aerospace Manufacturing Seminar to be held in Thiruvananthapuram on Friday • Jan. 9, 2025, 11:21 PM ET (The Hindu)

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Thiruvananthapuram, city, capital of Kerala state, southwestern India. It is situated along the Arabian Sea with isolated hills on a coastal plain.

The community became prominent under Raja Martanda Varma, who made it the capital of his kingdom of Travancore in 1745. The city’s former name, Trivandrum, was given by the British and is a contraction of Thiruvananthapuram, its name during the Travancore kingdom that was adopted again in 1991.

Thiruvananthapuram’s industries include mineral processing, sugar milling, textiles, and handicrafts. Rice and coconut cultivation and coastal fishing are economically important. Thiruvananthapuram is a rail terminus and road hub and has an airport and a harbor. It is the site of the University of Kerala (1937) and its affiliated colleges and technical schools. It also has a museum, zoological gardens, an observatory, and an art gallery. A large fort contains several palaces and the Padmanabhaswamy Temple which is dedicated to the Hindu god Vishnu and is a noted pilgrimage center. The city gets its name from the temple—it is considered the town or abode (puram) of the Lord (thiru) Ananta (“endless”), a name of Vishnu and, more commonly, the name of the serpent Shesha on whom Vishnu rests. Pop. (2001) city, 744,983; urban agglom., 889,635; (2011) city, 743,691; urban agglom., 1,679,754.

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