Kombai is a

panchayat town A nagar panchayat () or town panchayat or Notified Area Council (NAC) in India is a settlement in transition from rural to urban and therefore a form of an urban political unit comparable to a municipality. An urban centre with more than 12,00 ...

Theni District Theni District is one of the 38 districts of Tamil Nadu state in India. Surrounded by hills, the district is located to the west of Madurai district. The town of Theni is the district headquarters. The district is divided into two natural div ...

in the

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, in the foot hills of the Western Ghats.

Geography

Kombai is located at .

Topography

Kombai has an average elevation of 399 metres (1309 feet). The village is situated near Western Ghats and is surrounded by mountains. North Side- Pannaipuram, East Side-Salamalai hills, West Side-Kerala border hills, South Side-Uthamapalayam town. Two mountain called Ramakkal mettu hills situated in west side & Salamali hills situated in east side.

Demographics

Population

India

census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...

, Kombai had a population of 12,820. Males constitute 50% of the population and females 50%. Kombai has an average literacy rate of 64%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 72%, and female literacy is 65%. In Kombai, 10% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Transport

The

Bodinayakkanur railway station Bodinayakkanur railway station (station code:BDNK) is an NSG–6 category List of railway stations in India, Indian railway station in Madurai railway division of Southern Railway zone. It is a railway station on Madurai–Bodinayakkanur bran ...

is the nearest railway station to Kombai.

Notable people

Ramachandran Durairaj Ramachandran Durairaj is an Indian actor who has appeared in Tamil language films. After working as an associate director, he made his breakthrough as an actor with a negative role in Suseenthiran's '' Naan Mahaan Alla'' (2010). He later won acc ...

- actor

References

Cities and towns in Theni district {{Theni-geo-stub