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Nagapattinam (also formerly known as Negapatam) is a small city of about a 100,000 population located in Coastal Tamil Nadu state in India. It is located in a Temple rich area: the city hosts the reputed Soundararajan Perumal Koil, Neelayatakshmi Amman Koil and is pretty close to the reputed Church and Mosque in Vellankani and Nagore, respectively. It is about 8 hours south of Chennai (Madras).
This place was in recent news because of the devastating Tsunami of 2004 which hit here killing about 8,000 people. This Tsunami also killed about 100,000 people in Indonesia mainly in Aceh area and about 30,000 in Sri Lanka apart from toll in Malaysia, Thailand, and as far as East Africa.
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