Tharangambadi taluk is a taluk of Nagapattinam district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Pondicherry, and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh...

. The headquarters of the taluk is the town of Tharangambadi

Population

According to the 2001 census, the taluk of Tharangambadi had a population of 186,387 with 91,784 males and 94,603 females. There were 1031 women for every 1000 men. The taluk had a literacy rate of 75.76. The total number of households was 41,629.