Kottayam

Kottayam is a city in the Kottayam district of Kerala, India, and the headquarters of the district, about 66 kilometres south of Kochi and 154 kilometres north of the state capital Thiruvananthapuram. The English Wikipedia article says the Kottayam district was established in July 1949, that the city stands at an average elevation of 3 metres above sea level, that the area under Kottayam Municipality is 55.40 square kilometres, and that the climate is tropical monsoon (Koppen Am). The 2011 census of India counted 136,812 people, a density of 2,470 per square kilometre.