Velankanni also known as Vailankanni or "Velanganni" is a panchayat town in Nagapattinam district in the Tamil Nadu. It is a small town located on the shores of the Bay of Bengal 350 km south of Chennai (Madras) and 12 km south of Nagapattinam on the Coromandel Coast in Tamil Nadu. Once a port that traded with Rome and Greece the tiny commercial center gradually lost its importance to the larger Nagapattinam. The canal built to link that city with Vedaranyam still lies to the west of Vailankanni. The Vellayar a minor branch of the Cauvery River runs on the south of the village and flows into the sea.
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