Chennai tops the list of districts in TN with most married girls under 15 years of age, according to recent data released by Census 2011. With 5,480 girls under the age of 15 married, Chennai is followed by industrialized Coimbatore that had 3,025 married girls below the age of 15.Madurai, Tirunelveli, Tirupur and Salem too showed more than 2,000 girls under the age of 15 who were married. Activists working against child marriage say that while child marriages are predominant in rural areas, the numbers are higher in urban areas because of more population. 

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