Nagercoil

Nagercoil, natively spelt Nagarkovil, meaning Temple of the Nagas or Nagaraja Temple, is a city and the administrative headquarters of Kanyakumari District in Tamil Nadu, India. It is situated close to the tip of the Indian peninsula, on an undulating terrain between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea. The cuisine of the Nanjil Nadu region, a blend of Tamil and Kerala culinary traditions from the southern coastal belt of Tamil Nadu, is associated especially with Nagercoil. At the 2011 census the city had a population of 289,916, with a female-male sex ratio of 1.05, well above the national average of 0.929 females per male.