{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2018}} {{Use Indian English|date=September 2018}} {{Infobox settlement | name = Sakkottai | other_name = | nickname = | settlement_type = neighbourhood | image_skyline = | image_alt = | image_caption = | pushpin_map = India Tamil Nadu#India | pushpin_label_position = right | pushpin_map_alt = | pushpin_map_caption = Location in Tamil Nadu, India | coordinates = {{coord|10.93|N|79.4|E|display=inline,title}} | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = {{flag|India}} | subdivision_type1 = State | subdivision_name1 = Tamil Nadu | subdivision_type2 = District | subdivision_name2 = Thanjavur | subdivision_type3 = Taluk | subdivision_name3 = Kumbakonam | established_title = <!-- Established --> | established_date = | founder = | named_for = | government_type = | governing_body = | leader_title = Panchayat President | leader_name = | unit_pref = Metric | area_footnotes = | area_rank = | area_total_km2 = | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = | population_total = 2889 | population_as_of = 2001 | population_rank = | population_density_km2 = auto | population_demonym = | population_footnotes = | demographics_type1 = Languages | demographics1_title1 = Official | demographics1_info1 = Tamil | timezone1 = IST | utc_offset1 = +5:30 | postal_code_type = PIN | postal_code = 612401 | area_code_type = Telephone code | area_code = 0435 | registration_plate = | website = | footnotes = }}
'''Sakkottai''' is a neighbourhood of Kumbakonam Municipal Corporation of Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, India. The neighbourhood is famous for the Amirthakadeswarar Temple. Popular Indian historian S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar and Manimekalai Sukumar Mudaliyar hailed from Sakkottai. In older days it was known as "Savvukottai".
== Demographics ==
According to the 2001 census, Sakkottai had a population of 2,889, of whom 1,437 were males and 1,452 females, 301 of whom were under six years of age.<ref name="census2001">{{cite web|title=Primary Census Abstract Data of Tamil Nadu|url=http://www.census.tn.nic.in/pca2001.aspx|publisher=Directorate of Census Operations|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090806044705/http://www.census.tn.nic.in/pca2001.aspx|archivedate=2009-08-06}}</ref> Sakkottai had a sex ratio of 1,010.<ref name="census2001" /> Sakkottai had a literacy rate of 70.22.<ref name="census2001" /> The male literacy rate was 79.37 while the female literacy rate was 64.66.<ref name="census2001" /> The village had a scheduled caste population of 790 and a scheduled tribe population of 4.<ref name="census2001" />
== Prominent personalities ==
* Sakkottai Krishnaswami Aiyangar: Indian historian and Dravidologist.
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Category:Villages in Thanjavur district