livinginauroville
The bioregion, drawn · from OpenStreetMap, mapped by the community itself

The map

Auroville is a movement, a place, and a community — this page is the place. A hundred communities spiralling out from a banyan tree, ringed by the villages that were here first, with the sea to the east.

Every dot is a name someone chose with care — Certitude, Felicity, Courage, Aspiration — and every village around them has carried its own name far longer. Drag, zoom, tap. The names below the map fly you to them.

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Tap a name to visit it on the map. Then tap its marker for a link to what this site knows about it.

About this map: place data comes from OpenStreetMap — mapped over the years by Auroville's own residents (© OpenStreetMap contributors). The town was planned for 50,000 as a spiral galaxy around the banyan at its centre; what you see is how far the dream has grown, surrounded by villages that predate it by centuries. Some names may be works in progress — that's the nature of a place that's still becoming. Spot an error? Tell us.