The present study aims to find out the land use/ land cover of Pudukkottai District. The total area of the District is 4,663 sq.km. Pudukkottai District is situated in the centre of Tamil Nadu State. The study has made use of satellite imagery for identifying the land use/ land cover of the study area. Arc-GIS software was used to demarcate the land used/land covered divisions of Pudukkottai District. The District has been classified into five classes in Level I and 11 sub classes of level II. The major land use is under agriculture 1,691sq.km. (39%) Built up land use 1,292.65 sq.km (27.72 %), waste land 1,079 sq.km (24.32 %) and water bodies 321 sq.km (6.88%).