Ramanathapuram District is an administrative district of
Tamil Nadu state in southern
India. The city of
Ramanathapuram is the district headquarters. Ramanthapuram District has an
area of 4123 km
2. It is bounded on the north by
Sivaganga District, on the northeast by
Pudukkottai District, on the east by the
Palk Strait, on the south by the
Gulf of Mannar, on the west by
Thoothukudi District, and on the northwest by
Virudhunagar District. The district contains the
Pamban Bridge, an east-west chain of low islands and shallow reefs that extend between India and the island nation of
Sri Lanka, and separate the Palk Strait from the Gulf of Mannar. The Palk Strait is navigable only by shallow-draft vessels. As of 2011, Ramanathapuram district had a population of 1,353,445 with a sex-ratio of 983 females for every 1,000 males.