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[[File:Purple Swamphen (Porphyrio poliocephalus) 22-Mar-2007 10-12-15 AM.jpg|thumb|right|240px|Purple Swamphen (''[[Porphyrio porphyrio]]'') photographed in Vembanad Lake, Kottayam]]
 
'''Kottayam''' ({{lang-ml|കോട്ടയം}}; {{IPA-ml|ko:ʈ:ayam|IPA}}) is a [[Municipalities of Kerala|municipality]]<ref>https://lsgkerala.gov.in/system/files/2017-10/localbodies.pdf</ref> in the [[Kottayam district]] of [[Kerala]], [[India]]. It is the district headquarters of the district and is located about {{convert|129|km|1|abbr=on}} north of the state capital [[Thiruvananthapuram]]. As per the [[2011 Indian census]], Kottayam has a population of 489,615 people, and a population density of {{convert|4533|/sqkm|abbr=on}}. The total Kottayam [[Metropolitan area]] (the combined area of Kottayam municipality and its adjacent suburbs) has a population of 802,419 people, and a population density of {{convert|3647|/sqkm|abbr=on}}.
 
Kottayam is also referred to as "the City of Letters" as many of the first [[Malayalam]] daily newspapers, such as ''[[Deepika (newspaper)|Deepika]],'' ''[[Malayala Manorama]],'' and ''[[Mangalam Publications|Mangalam]],'' were started and are headquartered in Kottayam, as are a number of publishing houses.{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}