Composition
The CMA has an area of 1189 km² spread over three districts.
| Sn | District | Area (km²) | Population (2001) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chennai district | 176 | 4,661,834 |
| 2 | Thiruvallur district | 637 | 1,574,847 |
| 3 | Kancheepuram district | 376 | 1,107,789 |
| Total | 1,189 | 7,344,470 |
- Chennai city (not to be confused with Chennai district) currently covers an area of 701 sq. km and includes adjoining sections of Tiruvallur and Kanchipuram districts along with the 176 sq km of the Chennai District. Prior to the expansion in September 2011, the city of Chennai(administred by the Chennai Corporation) fell completely within Chennai District.
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Famous quotes containing the word composition:
“Since body and soul are radically different from one another and belong to different worlds, the destruction of the body cannot mean the destruction of the soul, any more than a musical composition can be destroyed when the instrument is destroyed.”
—Oscar Cullman. Immortality of the Soul or Resurrection of the Dead? The Witness of the New Testament, ch. 1, Epworth Press (1958)
“When I think of God, when I think of him as existent, and when I believe him to be existent, my idea of him neither increases nor diminishes. But as it is certain there is a great difference betwixt the simple conception of the existence of an object, and the belief of it, and as this difference lies not in the parts or composition of the idea which we conceive; it follows, that it must lie in the manner in which we conceive it.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“Boswell, when he speaks of his Life of Johnson, calls it my magnum opus, but it may more properly be called his opera, for it is truly a composition founded on a true story, in which there is a hero with a number of subordinate characters, and an alternate succession of recitative and airs of various tone and effect, all however in delightful animation.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)