Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu, the land of temples, is situated in South of India. It has an unbroken coast line, edging the Bay of Bengal. Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Kerala share their boundaries with Tamil Nadu. The places of tourist interest in the state are Chennai, the beautiful capital city; Mamallapuram, the beach resort; Kanchipuram, the land of 1000 temples; Madurai famous for the Meenakshi temple; Rameshwaram, Tiruchirapalli and Thanjavur, the temple trio; the charming hill resorts of Yercaud, Ootacamund and Kodaikanal and Kanyakumari, the southern tip of India, renowned for its fantastic sunrise and sunset. The south known as the Madras province was divided on a linguistic basis into Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh. According to the state reorganization Act, some areas were mutually exchanged between Kerala and Tamil Nadu (malabar and Kasargod to Kerala, Shencotta and Kanyakumari from Kerala), following which Madras was christened as Tamil Nadu.