Kumta

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Kumta

Total population

30,000

Coordinates14.43°, 74.41°

Demographic figures from Ministry of Statistics (India). Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Kumta or Kumata is a town and taluk in the Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka, India. It is one of the important stations along the Konkan Railway line running between Mumbai and Mangalore.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Dinakara Desai

Indian politician and poet

Ramanujan Shankar Hegde

Group Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Recently spotted species

Sesame

Sesamum indicum

Seen 2026-09-14

Great Eggfly

Hypolimnas bolina

Seen 2026-09-08

Swampwatcher

Potamarcha congener

Seen 2026-09-08

White-bellied Sea-Eagle

Icthyophaga leucogaster

Seen 2026-09-05

Malabar Pied Hornbill

Anthracoceros coronatus

Seen 2026-09-01

Pied Paddy Skimmer

Neurothemis tullia

Seen 2026-08-05

Lesser Balsam

Impatiens minor

Seen 2026-08-05

Sweet basil

Ocimum basilicum

Seen 2026-08-05

Large-spotted Helen

Papilio daksha

Seen 2026-07-03

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).