Thiruvananthapuram
similarly known by its past name Trivandrum ] is the capital of the Indian territory of Kerala. It is the most packed city in Kerala with a general population of 957,730 beginning at 2011. The including metropolitan agglomeration people is around 1.68 million.[5] Located on the west coastline of India near the very south of the focal region, Thiruvananthapuram is a huge information development focus in Kerala and contributes 55% of the state's item conveys as of 2016.Referred to by Mahatma Gandhi as the "Evergreen city of India" the city is portrayed by its undulating scene of low ocean front slants.
The current regions that lay out Thiruvananthapuram were administered by the Ays who were feudatories of the Chera line. In the twelfth century, it was vanquished by the Kingdom of Venad.[13] In the eighteenth century the ruler Marthanda Varma broadened the district and laid out the august region of Travancore and made Thiruvananthapuram its capital.[14] Travancore transformed into the most overarching state in Kerala by defeating the solid Zamorin of Kozhikode in the conflict of Purakkad in 1755. Following India's independence in 1947, Thiruvananthapuram transformed into the capital of Travancore-Cochin state and remained so till the new Indian domain of Kerala was outlined in 1956.
Thiruvananthapuram is an exceptional researcher and investigation focus point and home to the University of Kerala, APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University, the nearby headquarters of Indira Gandhi National Open University, and various schools and colleges. Thiruvananthapuram is furthermore home to explore centers, for instance, the National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Indian Space Research Organization's Vikram Sarabhai Space Center, the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, National Center for Earth Science Studies and a grounds of the Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research.[17] The city is home to media establishments like Toonz India Ltd and Tata Elxsi Ltd, and is similarly home to Chitranjali Film Studio, one of the chief film studios in Malayalam Cinema, and Kinfra Film and Video Park at Kazhakoottom, which is India's first Infotainment present day park.
Being India's greatest city in the significant south, it is unequivocally observable and has the Southern Air Command headquarters of the Indian Air Force, the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station and the approaching Vizhinjam International Seaport. Thiruvananthapuram is a huge spot of interest, known for the Padmanabhaswamy Temple, the beaches of Kovalam and Varkala, the backwaters of Poovar and Anchuthengu and its Western Ghats plots of Ponmudi and the Agastya Mala. In 2012, Thiruvananthapuram was named the best Kerala city to live in, by a field outline coordinated by The Times of India.[19] In 2013, the city was situated the fifteenth best city to live in India, in a survey drove by India Today. Thiruvananthapuram was situated the best Indian city for two consecutive years, 2015 and 2016, as shown by the Annual Survey of India's City-Systems (ASICS) coordinated by the Janaagraha Center for Citizenship and Democracy. The city was similarly picked as the best addressed city in India in a review drove by Janaagraha Center for citizenship and a democratic government in 2017.