User:Moidu.babu/Malappuram District Panchayat

Malappuram District is a revenue district in the state of Kerala, South India with headquarters at the city of Malappuram. The district was formed on 16 June 1969. Malappuram District comprises an vast wildlife collection and a number of small hills, forests, little rivers and streams flowing to the west, backwaters and paddy, arecanut, cashew nut, pepper, ginger, pulses, coconut, banana, tapioca, and rubber plantations.

History
The word Malappuram ("terraced place atop the hills") came to represent the present region only after the formation of the district, before it was called Eranad or Valluvanad