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Pondichéry

Variant of Pondicherry

  1. territory of SE India, chiefly on the Coromandel Coast: before 1954 a part of French India: 190 sq mi (492 sq km); pop. 894,000
  2. its capital: pop. 203,000
Fr. name

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