Karaikudi

Karaikudi is a Greater municipality in Sivagangai district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is the 20 th largest urban agglomeration of Tamil Nadu based on 2011 census data. It is part of the area commonly referred to as "Chettinad" and has been declared a Greater Municipal Corporation by the Government of Tamil Nadu, on account of the palatial houses built with limestone called karai veedu.

Karaikudi comes under the Karaikudi assembly constituency, which elects a member to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly once every five years, and it is a part of the Sivaganga, which elects its member of parliament once in five years. The town is administered by the Karaikudi special grade municipality, which covers an area of 100 km2.