Kerala, southwestern coastal nation of India. It is a small nation, constituting simplest about 1 percent of the entire region of the country. Kerala stretches for approximately 360 miles (580 km) along the Malabar Coast, various in width from roughly 20 to 75 miles (30 to one hundred twenty km). It is bordered by using the states of Karnataka (formerly Mysore) to the north and Tamil Nadu to the east and by way of the Arabian Sea to the south and west; it also surrounds Mahe, a section of the country of Puducherry, at the northwestern coast. The capital is Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum).