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Tumkur or Tumakuru ( Kannada: ತುಮಕೂರು Tumakūru ) is a city in the southern Indian state of Karnataka with around 306,000 inhabitants ( 2011 census ). It is located in the southeast of Karnataka about 70 kilometers northwest of the capital Bangalore. The city is the administrative center of the district of Tumkur.

On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Karnataka in 2006, the state government decided, following a proposal of the writer UR Ananthamurthy to change the English name of 13 cities in Karnataka in its Kannada name forms. This should be renamed in Tumkur Tumakuru. Since the Indian central government to the name change has not yet been approved, the renaming process is not yet complete but.

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