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People near the beach in Pondicherry, a former French colony.
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Pondicherry is in the South Eastern part of India on the Bay of Bengal South West of Chennai. It consists of four former French coastal settlements whose administration was transferred to India
in 1954. Puducherry (formerly Pondicherry) is a Union Territory of India. It is a former French colony, consisting of four non-contiguous enclaves, or districts, and named for the largest, Puducherry (formerly Pondicherry). In September 2006, the territory changed its official name from Pondicherry to the Puducherry, which means "New Colony" in the Tamil language. Puducherry have four small unconnected districts: Puducherry, Karaikal, and Yanam on the Bay of Bengal and Mahé on the Arabian Sea. Puducherry and Karaikal are by far the larger ones, and are both enclaves of Tamil Nadu. Yanam and Mahé are enclaves of Andhra Pradesh, and Kerala respectively. Today nearly 20,000 Pondicherry people live in France and nearly 10,000 French citizens live in the territory of Pondicherry. |
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