Tenkasi district

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Tenkasi District
District
Courtallam Falls
Tenkasi district Location in Tamil Nadu
Country	India
State	Tamil Nadu
Largest City	Kadayanallur
Municipality	Tenkasi
Established	22 November 2019
Founded by	Edappadi K. Palaniswami
Seat	Tenkasi
Talukas	Kadayanallur Tenkasi Sankarankovil Shenkottai Sivagiri Veerakeralamputhur Alangulam Tiruvengadam
Government
• Type	District Administration
• Body	Tenkasi District Collectorate
• Collector	Durai. Ravichandran, I.A.S.
• Superintendent of Police	E. T. Samson, I.P.S.
Area [1]
• Total	2,916.13 km2 (1,125.92 sq mi)
Population [1]
• Total	1,440,795
• Density	490/km2 (1,300/sq mi)
Languages
• Official	Tamil
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
Vehicle registration	TN76 and TN76A and TN79
Website	tenkasi.nic.in

Tenkasi (Tamil: [t̪eŋɡaːsi]) is one of the 38 districts of Tamil Nadu, India, separated from Tirunelveli district on 22 November 2019. The Government of Tamil Nadu announced its creation on 18 July 2019. The district headquarters is at Tenkasi.^[2]