Kootapuli is a small coastal village in

Radhapuram taluk Radhapuram taluk is a taluk of Tirunelveli district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a state in southern India. It is the tenth largest Indian state by area and the sixth largest by population. Its capital and lar ...

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, India. Kootapuli is close to the

Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (or Kudankulam NPP or KKNPP) is the largest nuclear power station in India, situated in Kudankulam in the Tirunelveli district of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Construction on the plant began on 31 Ma ...

. Kootapuli is east of

Nagercoil Nagercoil, also spelt as Nagarkovil ("Temple of the Nāgas", or Nagaraja-Temple), is a city and the administrative headquarters of Kanyakumari District in Tamil Nadu state, India. Situated close to the tip of the Indian peninsula, it lies on an ...

, east of

Trivandrum Thiruvananthapuram (; ), also known by its former name Trivandrum (), is the capital of the Indian state of Kerala. It is the most populous city in Kerala with a population of 957,730 as of 2011. The encompassing urban agglomeration populati ...

, east of Kanyakumari, southeast of Valliyoor, west of

Kudankulam Kudankulam is a town in the Kanyakumari district in Tamil Nadu, India. It is 20 km northeast of Kanyakumari, 30 km from Nagercoil, 70 km from Tirunelveli and about 105 km from Thiruvananthapuram. The town is notable as the co ...

, east of

Anjugramam Anjugramam is a panchayat town in Kanniyakumari district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. Before 1956, Anjugramam was united with Kerala Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, fo ...

and southeast of

Tirunelveli Tirunelveli (, ta, திருநெல்வேலி, translit=Tirunelveli) also known as Nellai ( ta, நெல்லை, translit=Nellai) and historically (during British rule) as Tinnevelly, is a major city in the Indian state of Tami ...

. In 2013, some residents of Kootapuli were involved in protests against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant. In 2018, some residents were involved the

Thoothukudi violence Thoothukudi massacre (also known as the Thoothukudi police firing, the Anti Sterlite protest firing and so on) denotes events that took place on 22 and 23 May 2018 in Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu, India. The violence took place during an ongoing pro ...

, a series of protests that ended with police firing on civilians.

References

Villages in Tirunelveli district {{Tirunelveli-geo-stub