Category:Pondicherry

**Pondicherry**
	city in the Union Territory of Puducherry, India
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Instance of	city
Location	Puducherry, India
Founded by	François Martin;
Inception	1674;
Significant event	Siege of Pondicherry;
Area	19.54 km²;
Elevation above sea level	3 ±1 m;
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	11° 55′ 48″ N, 79° 49′ 48″ E
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	Q639421; GND ID: 4103204-4; Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 12072382c
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Object location	11° 55′ 48″ N, 79° 49′ 48″ E	View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap	11.930000; 79.830000

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Pondicherry, officially Puducherry, (Marathi: पुडुचेरी शहर) is a city, an urban agglomeration and a municipality in Puducherry District in the Indian union territory of Puducherry. Both the Union Territory and the city were previously known as Pondicherry before September 2006. Puducherry is the largest urban agglomeration in Puducherry UT and has a population of 505,959 according to the 2001 Census Of India.