Thiruvananthapuram Metropolitan Area is the area consisting of Thiruvananthapuram Corporation and the municipalities of

Attingal Attingal is a municipality in Thiruvananthapuram metropolitan area in Thiruvananthapuram district of Kerala state, India. It was the location of the Attingal kingdom, under Travancore. It is the headquarters of Chirayinkeezhu Taluk, and t ...

, Nedumangad and Neyyattinkara, 3 "outgrowths" and 24 census towns. The total population is 1,687,406, which includes 815,200 males and 872,206 females as per 2011 census.

Components

Trivandrum Capital Region

The Thiruvananthapuram Capital Region or TCR is the area proposed by TRIDA (

Thiruvananthapuram Development Authority Thiruvananthapuram Development Authority ( ml, തിരുവനന്തപുരം വികസന അതോറിറ്റി), commonly abbreviated as TRIDA, is a body of the Government of Kerala that was constituted for the implementation ...

) by joining adjacent municipalities of

Varkala Varkala, is a major coastal municipality situated in the northern suburb of Trivandrum, capital city of the Indian state of Kerala. It is the headquarters of Varkala Taluk and important government institutions such as the taluk office, co ...

, Neyyattinkara and Nedumangad with Thiruvananthapuram city.TRIDA - Seminar on TCR
/ref> This was proposed for planning the development of the capital region of

Kerala Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South Ca ...

more effectively. The TCR covers most part of the Thiruvananthapuram UA and eyes to develop the surrounding municipalities as satellite towns to the main city.

References

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