NAGERCOIL

Coordinates: 8°10′N 77°26′E / 8.17, 77.43

Nagercoil (Tamil: நாகர்கோவில்) is a city and a municipality in Kanyakumari district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is the southernmost city in South India, situated close to the tip of the Indian peninsula. The town is also the administrative headquarters of Kanyakumari District. It was a part of Kerala, the erstwhile Travancore state, till almost a decade after India's Independence from Britain in 1947. In 1956, it was merged with Tamil Nadu. In its earlier days, the town and its surroundings were known as Nanjilnadu.