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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85" title="فيساخاباتنام – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="فيساخاباتنام" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-as mw-list-item"><a href="https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%96%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%9F%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%AE" title="বিশাখাপট্টনম – Assamese" lang="as" hreflang="as" data-title="বিশাখাপট্টনম" data-language-autonym="অসমীয়া" data-language-local-name="Assamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>অসমীয়া</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visakhapatnam" title="Visakhapatnam – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Visakhapatnam" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85" title="ویساکاپاتنام – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="ویساکاپاتنام" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%96%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%AE" title="বিশাখাপত্তনম – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="বিশাখাপত্তনম" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visakhapatnam_(si%C3%A2%E2%81%BF)" title="Visakhapatnam (siâⁿ) – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Visakhapatnam (siâⁿ)" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D1%88%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BC" title="Вішакхапатнам – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Вішакхапатнам" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bh mw-list-item"><a href="https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%AE" title="बिशाखापट्टनम – Bhojpuri" lang="bh" hreflang="bh" data-title="बिशाखापट्टनम" data-language-autonym="भोजपुरी" data-language-local-name="Bhojpuri" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>भोजपुरी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visakhapatnam" title="Visakhapatnam – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Visakhapatnam" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visakhapatnam" title="Visakhapatnam – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Visakhapatnam" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visakhapatnam" title="Visakhapatnam – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Visakhapatnam" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi%C5%A1%C3%A1khapatnam" title="Višákhapatnam – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Višákhapatnam" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visakhapatnam" title="Visakhapatnam – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Visakhapatnam" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visakhapatnam" title="Visakhapatnam – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Visakhapatnam" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visakhapatnam" title="Visakhapatnam – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Visakhapatnam" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi%C5%9Dakhapatnam" title="Viŝakhapatnam – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Viŝakhapatnam" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visakhapatnam" title="Visakhapatnam – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Visakhapatnam" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85" title="ویساکاپاتنام – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="ویساکاپاتنام" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visakhapatnam" title="Visakhapatnam – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Visakhapatnam" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gu mw-list-item"><a href="https://gu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AA%B5%E0%AA%BF%E0%AA%B6%E0%AA%BE%E0%AA%96%E0%AA%BE%E0%AA%AA%E0%AA%9F%E0%AA%A8%E0%AA%AE" title="વિશાખાપટનમ – Gujarati" lang="gu" hreflang="gu" data-title="વિશાખાપટનમ" data-language-autonym="ગુજરાતી" data-language-local-name="Gujarati" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ગુજરાતી</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B9%84%EC%83%A4%EC%B9%B4%ED%8C%8C%ED%8A%B8%EB%82%A8" title="비샤카파트남 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="비샤카파트남" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ha mw-list-item"><a href="https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visakhapatnam" title="Visakhapatnam – Hausa" lang="ha" hreflang="ha" data-title="Visakhapatnam" data-language-autonym="Hausa" data-language-local-name="Hausa" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hausa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8E%D5%AB%D5%B7%D5%A1%D5%AF%D5%B0%D5%A1%D5%BA%D5%A1%D5%BF%D5%B6%D5%A1%D5%B4" title="Վիշակհապատնամ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Վիշակհապատնամ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%AE" title="विशाखपटनम – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="विशाखपटनम" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bpy mw-list-item"><a href="https://bpy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%96%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%AE" title="বিশাখাপত্তম – Bishnupriya" lang="bpy" hreflang="bpy" data-title="বিশাখাপত্তম" data-language-autonym="বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী" data-language-local-name="Bishnupriya" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visakhapatnam" title="Visakhapatnam – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Visakhapatnam" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-os mw-list-item"><a href="https://os.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BC" title="Вишакхапатнам – Ossetic" lang="os" hreflang="os" data-title="Вишакхапатнам" data-language-autonym="Ирон" data-language-local-name="Ossetic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ирон</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visakhapatnam" title="Visakhapatnam – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Visakhapatnam" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A1%D7%90%D7%A7%D7%A4%D7%90%D7%98%D7%A0%D7%90%D7%9D" title="ויסאקפאטנאם – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="ויסאקפאטנאם" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B6%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%96%E0%B2%AA%E0%B2%9F%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%A8%E0%B2%82" title="ವಿಶಾಖಪಟ್ನಂ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ವಿಶಾಖಪಟ್ನಂ" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ಕನ್ನಡ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pam mw-list-item"><a href="https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visakhapatnam" title="Visakhapatnam – Pampanga" lang="pam" hreflang="pam" data-title="Visakhapatnam" data-language-autonym="Kapampangan" data-language-local-name="Pampanga" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kapampangan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%95%E1%83%98%E1%83%A8%E1%83%90%E1%83%A5%E1%83%90%E1%83%9E%E1%83%90%E1%83%A2%E1%83%9C%E1%83%90%E1%83%9B%E1%83%98" title="ვიშაქაპატნამი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ვიშაქაპატნამი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ks mw-list-item"><a href="https://ks.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%90%D8%B4%D8%A7%DA%A9%DA%BE%D8%A7%D9%BE%D9%8E%D9%B9%D9%86%D9%8E%D9%85" title="وِشاکھاپَٹنَم – Kashmiri" lang="ks" hreflang="ks" data-title="وِشاکھاپَٹنَم" data-language-autonym="कॉशुर / کٲشُر" data-language-local-name="Kashmiri" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>कॉशुर / کٲشُر</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visakhapatnam" title="Visakhapatnam – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Visakhapatnam" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BC" title="Вишакхапатнам – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Вишакхапатнам" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lld mw-list-item"><a href="https://lld.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visakhapatnam" title="Visakhapatnam – Ladin" lang="lld" hreflang="lld" data-title="Visakhapatnam" data-language-autonym="Ladin" data-language-local-name="Ladin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ladin</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi%C5%A1%C4%81khapatnama" title="Višākhapatnama – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Višākhapatnama" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi%C5%A1akhapatnamas" title="Višakhapatnamas – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Višakhapatnamas" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vis%C3%A1khapatnam" title="Visákhapatnam – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Visákhapatnam" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mai mw-list-item"><a href="https://mai.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%AE" title="विशाखपट्नम – Maithili" lang="mai" hreflang="mai" data-title="विशाखपट्नम" data-language-autonym="मैथिली" data-language-local-name="Maithili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मैथिली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visakhapatnam" title="Visakhapatnam – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Visakhapatnam" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%B6%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%96%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%9F%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9F%E0%B4%A3%E0%B4%82" title="വിശാഖപട്ടണം – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="വിശാഖപട്ടണം" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%A3%E0%A4%AE" title="विशाखापट्टणम – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="विशाखापट्टणम" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%95%E1%83%98%E1%83%A8%E1%83%90%E1%83%A5%E1%83%B0%E1%83%90%E1%83%9E%E1%83%90%E1%83%A2%E1%83%9C%E1%83%90%E1%83%9B%E1%83%98" title="ვიშაქჰაპატნამი – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="ვიშაქჰაპატნამი" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>მარგალური</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%87_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85" title="مدينه فيساخاباتنام – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="مدينه فيساخاباتنام" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visakhapatnam" title="Visakhapatnam – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Visakhapatnam" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BC" title="Вишакхапатнам – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="Вишакхапатнам" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Монгол</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visakhapatnam_(stad)" title="Visakhapatnam (stad) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Visakhapatnam (stad)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%AE" title="विशाखापट्टनम – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" data-title="विशाखापट्टनम" data-language-autonym="नेपाली" data-language-local-name="Nepali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-new mw-list-item"><a href="https://new.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%A3%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8D" title="विशाखपट्टणम् – Newari" lang="new" hreflang="new" data-title="विशाखपट्टणम्" data-language-autonym="नेपाल भाषा" data-language-local-name="Newari" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाल भाषा</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AB%E3%83%91%E3%83%88%E3%83%8A%E3%83%A0" title="ヴィシャーカパトナム – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ヴィシャーカパトナム" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ce mw-list-item"><a href="https://ce.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BC" title="Вишакхапатнам – Chechen" lang="ce" hreflang="ce" data-title="Вишакхапатнам" data-language-autonym="Нохчийн" data-language-local-name="Chechen" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Нохчийн</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visakhapatnam" title="Visakhapatnam – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Visakhapatnam" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc 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Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Visakhapatnam (miasto)" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visagapat%C3%A3o" title="Visagapatão – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Visagapatão" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishakhapatnam" title="Vishakhapatnam – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Vishakhapatnam" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a 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lang="sat" hreflang="sat" data-title="ᱵᱤᱥᱟᱠᱷᱟᱯᱟᱴᱱᱟᱢ" data-language-autonym="ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ" data-language-local-name="Santali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visakhapatnam" title="Visakhapatnam – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Visakhapatnam" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-szl mw-list-item"><a href="https://szl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visakhapatnam_(mjasto)" title="Visakhapatnam (mjasto) – Silesian" lang="szl" hreflang="szl" data-title="Visakhapatnam (mjasto)" data-language-autonym="Ślůnski" data-language-local-name="Silesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ślůnski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a 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vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above"><div class="fn org">Visakhapatnam</div> <div class="nickname ib-settlement-other-name">Vizag, Visakha, Waltair<sup id="cite_ref-auto_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><div class="category"><a href="/wiki/Metropolis" title="Metropolis">Metropolis</a></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1273380762/mw-parser-output/.tmulti">.mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{display:flex;flex-direction:row;clear:left;flex-wrap:wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{margin:1px;float:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti 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//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Vizag_View_from_Kailasagiri.jpg/960px-Vizag_View_from_Kailasagiri.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4592" data-file-height="1658" /></a></span></div><div>Skyline of Visakhapatnam</div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:90px;max-width:90px"><div style=";height:117px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Damaged_lighthouse.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Old Lighthouse"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Damaged_lighthouse.jpg/120px-Damaged_lighthouse.jpg" decoding="async" width="88" height="117" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Damaged_lighthouse.jpg/250px-Damaged_lighthouse.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="960" data-file-height="1280" /></a></span></div><div>Old Vizag Lighthouse on <a href="/wiki/RK_Beach" title="RK Beach">RK Beach</a></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:178px;max-width:178px"><div style=";height:117px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:What_is_Shipyard.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/What_is_Shipyard.jpg/250px-What_is_Shipyard.jpg" decoding="async" width="176" height="117" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/What_is_Shipyard.jpg/330px-What_is_Shipyard.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/What_is_Shipyard.jpg/500px-What_is_Shipyard.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3008" data-file-height="2000" /></a></span></div><div><a href="/wiki/Hindustan_Shipyard" title="Hindustan Shipyard">Hindustan Shipyard</a></div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:142px;max-width:142px"><div style=";height:93px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Kambalakonda_wildlife_sanctuary_Landscape.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Kambalakonda"><img alt="" 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alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Shiva_and_Parvati_statues_in_Kailsagiri_park_02.jpg/124px-Shiva_and_Parvati_statues_in_Kailsagiri_park_02.jpg" decoding="async" width="124" height="93" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Shiva_and_Parvati_statues_in_Kailsagiri_park_02.jpg/186px-Shiva_and_Parvati_statues_in_Kailsagiri_park_02.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Shiva_and_Parvati_statues_in_Kailsagiri_park_02.jpg/248px-Shiva_and_Parvati_statues_in_Kailsagiri_park_02.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3664" data-file-height="2748" /></a></span></div><div>Lord Shiva & Parvathi statues on <a href="/wiki/Kailasagiri" title="Kailasagiri">Kailasagiri</a></div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:270px;max-width:270px"><div style=";height:70px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Cargo_Ship_and_breakwaters.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Vizag 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style="width:6em;right:4px"><div>Visakhapatnam</div></div></div></div><div style="padding-top:0.2em"></div><span class="switcher-label" style="display:none">Show map of India</span></div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">Coordinates: <span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Visakhapatnam&params=17_42_15_N_83_17_52_E_type:city(2091811)_region:IN-AP"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">17°42′15″N</span> <span class="longitude">83°17′52″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">17.70417°N 83.29778°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">17.70417; 83.29778</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/23px-Flag_of_India.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/35px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/45px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/States_and_union_territories_of_India" title="States and union territories of India">State</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Andhra_Pradesh" title="Andhra Pradesh">Andhra Pradesh</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_districts_in_Andhra_Pradesh" class="mw-redirect" title="List of districts in Andhra Pradesh">Districts</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Visakhapatnam_district" title="Visakhapatnam district">Visakhapatnam</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anakapalli_district" title="Anakapalli district">Anakapalli</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Incorporated (town)</th><td class="infobox-data">1865</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Incorporated (city)</th><td class="infobox-data">1979</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Government<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Municipal_Corporations_in_India" class="mw-redirect" title="Municipal Corporations in India">Municipal Corporation</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Body</th><td class="infobox-data agent"><a href="/wiki/Greater_Visakhapatnam_Municipal_Corporation" title="Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation">GVMC</a>, <a href="/wiki/Visakhapatnam_Metropolitan_Region_Development_Authority" title="Visakhapatnam Metropolitan Region Development Authority">VMRDA</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Mayor" title="Mayor">Mayor</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Golagani Hari Venkata Kumari<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (<a href="/wiki/YSRCP" class="mw-redirect" title="YSRCP">YSRCP</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Area<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • <a href="/wiki/Metropolis" title="Metropolis">Metropolis</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">640 km<sup>2</sup> (250 sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Metro<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th><td class="infobox-data">7,328.86 km<sup>2</sup> (2,829.69 sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Population<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><span class="nowrap"> </span>(2011)<sup id="cite_ref-ua2011_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ua2011-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • <a href="/wiki/Metropolis" title="Metropolis">Metropolis</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">2,091,811</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Estimate <div class="ib-settlement-fn">(2021)<sup id="cite_ref-ua2021_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ua2021-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></div></th><td class="infobox-data">2,358,412</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Rank</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/List_of_most_populous_cities_in_India" class="mw-redirect" title="List of most populous cities in India">17th</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Density</th><td class="infobox-data">3,300/km<sup>2</sup> (8,500/sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Demonym" title="Demonym">Demonym(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Visakha vaasi (Telugu), Vizagite (English)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Time_zone" title="Time zone">Time zone</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%2B5:30" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC+5:30">UTC+5:30</a> (<a href="/wiki/Indian_Standard_Time" title="Indian Standard Time">IST</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Postal_Index_Number" title="Postal Index Number">PIN</a></th><td class="infobox-data adr"><div class="postal-code">530 0XX, 531 1XX<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Telephone code</th><td class="infobox-data">+91-891</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plate" title="Vehicle registration plate">Vehicle registration</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_India#Current_codes" title="Vehicle registration plates of India"><b>AP-31, AP-32, AP-33, AP-34 , AP-39</b></a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Official languages</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Telugu_language" title="Telugu language">Telugu</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Nominal_GDP" class="mw-redirect" title="Nominal GDP">Nominal GDP</a>(2023-24) (Note: The following GDP Constitutes only for GVMC limits)</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><span style="white-space: nowrap">₹</span>129,571 crore</span> (US$15 billion)<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Contribution to state as a % of GDP</th><td class="infobox-data">9%</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.gvmc.gov.in">GVMC</a><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>fn 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://vmrda.gov.in/Default.aspx">VMRDA</a><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>fn 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://visakhapatnam.ap.gov.in/">District Authority</a></li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Visakhapatnam</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="'v' in 'vie'">v</span><span title="/ɪ/: 'i' in 'kit'">ɪ</span><span title="/ˌ/: secondary stress follows">ˌ</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span><span title="/ɑː/: 'a' in 'father'">ɑː</span><span title="'k' in 'kind'">k</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'p' in 'pie'">p</span><span title="/ʌ/: 'u' in 'cut'">ʌ</span><span title="'t' in 'tie'">t</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span></span>/</a></span></span>; <a href="/wiki/List_of_renamed_places_in_India" title="List of renamed places in India">formerly known</a> as <b>Vizagapatam</b>,<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and also referred to as <b>Vizag</b>, <b>Visakha</b>, and <b>Waltair</b>)<sup id="cite_ref-auto_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is the largest and most populous metropolitan city in the <a href="/wiki/States_and_union_territories_of_India" title="States and union territories of India">Indian state</a> of <a href="/wiki/Andhra_Pradesh" title="Andhra Pradesh">Andhra Pradesh</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is between the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Ghats" title="Eastern Ghats">Eastern Ghats</a> and the coast of the <a href="/wiki/Bay_of_Bengal" title="Bay of Bengal">Bay of Bengal</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-location_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-location-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is the second largest city on the <a href="/wiki/Coastal_India" title="Coastal India">east coast</a> of India after <a href="/wiki/Chennai" title="Chennai">Chennai</a>, and the fourth largest in <a href="/wiki/South_India" title="South India">South India</a>. It is one of the four <a href="/wiki/Smart_city" title="Smart city">smart cities</a> of Andhra Pradesh selected under the <a href="/wiki/Smart_Cities_Mission" title="Smart Cities Mission">Smart Cities Mission</a><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and is the headquarters of <a href="/wiki/Visakhapatnam_district" title="Visakhapatnam district">Visakhapatnam district</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-city_of_destiny_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-city_of_destiny-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Vizag is popularly known as <i>shipbuilding capital of India</i> due to presence of multiple shipyards such as <a href="/wiki/Hindustan_Shipyard" title="Hindustan Shipyard">Hindustan Shipyard</a>, <a href="/wiki/Naval_Dockyard_(Visakhapatnam)" title="Naval Dockyard (Visakhapatnam)">Naval Dockyard</a> and being the central naval command of the east coast. </p><p>Visakhapatnam's history dates back to the 6th century BCE.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The city was ruled by the <a href="/wiki/Satavahana_dynasty" title="Satavahana dynasty">Andhra Satavahanas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vengi" title="Vengi">Vengi</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Pallava_dynasty" title="Pallava dynasty">Pallava</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Ganga_dynasty" title="Eastern Ganga dynasty">Eastern Ganga</a> dynasties.<sup id="cite_ref-history3_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-history3-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Visakhapatnam was an ancient port city which had trade relations with the <a href="/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East">Middle East</a> and <a href="/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">Rome</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ships in Visakhapatnam were anchored at open roads and loaded with cargo transported from the shoreside using small <a href="/wiki/Masula_boat" title="Masula boat">masula boats</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A reference to a Vizagapatnam merchant is available in the inscriptions of <a href="/wiki/Kumararama" title="Kumararama">Bheemeswara temple</a> (1068 CE) in the <a href="/wiki/East_Godavari_district" title="East Godavari district">East Godavari District</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the 12th century CE, Vizagapatnam was a fortified mercantile town managed by a guild.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> European powers eventually established trade operations in the city, and by the end of the 18th century it had come under <a href="/wiki/French_India" title="French India">French colonial rule</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-history1_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-history1-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-history2_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-history2-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Control of the city passed to the <a href="/wiki/East_India_Company" title="East India Company">East India Company</a> in 1804 and it remained under <a href="/wiki/British_Raj" title="British Raj">British colonial rule</a> until <a href="/wiki/Indian_independence_movement" title="Indian independence movement">Indian independence in 1947</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-history2_34-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-history2-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The city is home to some reputed Central and State educational institutions of the state, including <a href="/wiki/Andhra_University" title="Andhra University">Andhra University</a> (AU), <a href="/wiki/Andhra_Medical_College" title="Andhra Medical College">Andhra Medical College</a> (AMC), <a href="/wiki/Indian_Institute_of_Management_Visakhapatnam" title="Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam">Indian Institute of Management</a> (IIM), <a href="/wiki/Indian_Institute_of_Petroleum_and_Energy" title="Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy">Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy</a> (IIPE), <a href="/wiki/Damodaram_Sanjivayya_National_Law_University" title="Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University">Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University</a> (DSNLU), <a href="/wiki/Indian_Maritime_University#Visakhapatnam_Campus" title="Indian Maritime University">Indian Maritime University</a> (IMU), and the <a href="/wiki/National_Institute_of_Oceanography,_India" title="National Institute of Oceanography, India">National Institute of Oceanography</a> among others. Visakhapatnam serves as the headquarters for the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Navy" title="Indian Navy">Indian Navy</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Naval_Command" title="Eastern Naval Command">Eastern Naval Command</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The city also serves as the <a href="/wiki/Zones_and_divisions_of_Indian_Railways" class="mw-redirect" title="Zones and divisions of Indian Railways">zonal headquarters</a> of <a href="/wiki/South_Coast_Railway_zone" title="South Coast Railway zone">South Coast Railway Zone</a> (SCoR). The city is also home to the oldest <a href="/wiki/Shipyard" title="Shipyard">shipyard</a> and the only <a href="/wiki/Harbor" title="Harbor">natural harbour</a> on the east coast of India.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Visakhapatnam_Port" title="Visakhapatnam Port">Visakhapatnam Port</a> is the <a href="/wiki/List_of_ports_in_India" title="List of ports in India">fifth-busiest cargo port</a> in India. The city is a major tourist destination and is known for its beaches, ancient <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhist</a> sites, and the natural environment of the surrounding <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Ghats" title="Eastern Ghats">Eastern Ghats</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is nicknamed as the "City of Destiny" and the "Jewel of the East Coast".<sup id="cite_ref-city_of_destiny_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-city_of_destiny-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to the <a href="/wiki/Swachh_Survekshan" title="Swachh Survekshan">Swachh Survekshan</a> rankings of 2020, it is the ninth cleanest city in India among cities with a population of more than <a href="/wiki/1_million" class="mw-redirect" title="1 million">1 million</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2020, it was a finalist in the Living and Inclusion category of the World Smart City Awards.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2></div> <p>The local belief behind the name of the city-states there was a king in the 4th century, who on his pilgrimage halted at Lawson's Bay and built a temple dedicated to <a href="/wiki/Vishakha" title="Vishakha">Vaisakha</a>, which was submerged under the sea, but the name of the temple became attached to the settlement.<sup id="cite_ref-etymology_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etymology-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other historical names are, <i>Kulotungapatnam</i>, named by the Chola King <a href="/wiki/Kulottunga_I" title="Kulottunga I">Kulottunga I</a>; <i>Ishakapatnam</i>, based on a Muslim Saint, Syed Ali Madani (Ishak Madani).<sup id="cite_ref-etymology_41-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etymology-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etymology2_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etymology2-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the <a href="/wiki/Company_rule_in_India" title="Company rule in India">East India Company rule in India</a>, the city was known with the name, <i>Vizagapatnam</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-sepoymutiny_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sepoymutiny-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The suburb <i>Waltair</i> is another such name which was derived from the name the British colonial government used.<sup id="cite_ref-city_of_destiny_25-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-city_of_destiny-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "Vizagapatnam" could also be spelled <i>Visakhapatnam</i> in the West European alphabet. The name was popularly shortened to <i>Vizag</i> and this form was in use right from the earliest days of British colonial rule in the district in the late eighteenth century.<sup id="cite_ref-Fathima_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fathima-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is still referred to as Vizag by locals too, however since <a href="/wiki/Indian_independence_movement" title="Indian independence movement">independence</a>, people have reverted to calling it by its Indian name of Visakhapatnam.<sup id="cite_ref-etymology_41-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etymology-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/History_of_Visakhapatnam" title="History of Visakhapatnam">History of Visakhapatnam</a></div> <p>Visakhapatnam's history stretches back to the 6th century BCE and the city finds mention in ancient texts such as the 4th century BCE writings of <a href="/wiki/P%C4%81%E1%B9%87ini" title="Pāṇini">Pāṇini</a> and <a href="/wiki/K%C4%81ty%C4%81yana" title="Kātyāyana">Katyayana</a>. Historically considered part of the <a href="/wiki/Kalinga_(historical_region)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kalinga (historical region)">Kalinga</a> region,<sup id="cite_ref-history1_33-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-history1-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-history2_34-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-history2-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> it was ruled by the <a href="/wiki/Vengi" title="Vengi">Vengi</a> kingdom and the <a href="/wiki/Pallava_dynasty" title="Pallava dynasty">Pallava</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Ganga_dynasty" title="Eastern Ganga dynasty">Eastern Ganga</a> dynasties during medieval times.<sup id="cite_ref-history3_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-history3-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Archaeological records suggest that the present city was built around the 11th and 12th centuries C.E. by the <a href="/wiki/Chola_dynasty" title="Chola dynasty">Chola dynasty</a> king <a href="/wiki/Kulottunga_I" title="Kulottunga I">Kulothunga I</a>. Control over the city fluctuated between the <a href="/wiki/Chola_dynasty" title="Chola dynasty">Chola dynasty</a> of <a href="/wiki/Tamil_Nadu" title="Tamil Nadu">Tamil Nadu</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Gajapati_Empire" title="Gajapati Empire">Gajapati Kingdom</a> of <a href="/wiki/Odisha" title="Odisha">Odisha</a><sup id="cite_ref-history1_33-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-history1-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-history2_34-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-history2-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> until its conquest by the <a href="/wiki/Vijayanagara_Empire" title="Vijayanagara Empire">Vijayanagara Empire</a> in the 15th century.<sup id="cite_ref-history3_27-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-history3-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The city was ruled by the Andhra Kings of Vengi and Pallavas. The city is named after Sri Visakha Varma.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Legend has it that <a href="/wiki/Radha" title="Radha">Radha</a> and <a href="/wiki/Visakha" title="Visakha">Viśakha</a> were born on the same day and were equally beautiful. Sri Visakka Sakhi is the second most important <a href="/wiki/Gopi" title="Gopi">gopi</a> of the eight main gopis. She carries messages between Radha and Krishna and is the most expert Gopi messenger. Residents believe that an Andhra king built a temple to pay homage to his family deity Viśakha. This is now inundated under seawater near <a href="/wiki/RK_Beach" title="RK Beach">R K Beach</a>. Another theory is that it is named after a woman disciple of Buddha named <a href="/wiki/Visakha" title="Visakha">Viśakha</a>. Later it was ruled by <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Jeypore" class="mw-redirect" title="Kingdom of Jeypore">Kingdom of Jeypore</a> (1535–1571), <a href="/wiki/Qutb_Shahi_dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Qutb Shahi dynasty">Qutb Shahis</a> (1571–1674) and (1674–1711), <a href="/wiki/Mughal_Empire" title="Mughal Empire">Mughal Empire</a> (1711–1724) and <a href="/wiki/Nizam_of_Hyderabad" title="Nizam of Hyderabad">Nizam</a> (1724–1757). The <a href="/wiki/French_Indies_Company" title="French Indies Company">French</a> (1757) and <a href="/wiki/East_India_Company" title="East India Company">British</a> (1765) established Factories and influence over the city. In 1794 the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Padmanabham" title="Battle of Padmanabham">Battle of Padmanabham</a> occurred between the <a href="/wiki/Vizianagaram_estate" class="mw-redirect" title="Vizianagaram estate">Zamindari of Vizianagaram</a> and the East India Company.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> after the battle, <a href="/wiki/Vizianagaram_estate" class="mw-redirect" title="Vizianagaram estate">Vizianagaram estate</a> was acquired by the East India company in 1802.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/East_India_Company" title="East India Company">British East India Company</a> fought the 1804 <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Vizagapatam" title="Battle of Vizagapatam">Battle of Vizagapatnam</a> and it remained the under <a href="/wiki/British_Raj" title="British Raj">British colonial rule</a> until <a href="/wiki/Indian_independence_movement" title="Indian independence movement">Indian independence in 1947</a> which was a part of the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Circars" title="Northern Circars">Northern Circars</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Buddhist_influence">Buddhist influence</h3></div> <p>Hindu texts state that during the fifth century BCE, the Visakhapatnam region was part of <a href="/wiki/Kalinga_(historical_region)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kalinga (historical region)">Kalinga</a> territory, which extended to the <a href="/wiki/Godavari_River" title="Godavari River">Godavari river</a>. Relics found in the area also prove the existence of a <a href="/wiki/Buddhist" class="mw-redirect" title="Buddhist">Buddhist</a> empire in the region. Kalinga later lost the territory to <a href="/wiki/Ashoka" title="Ashoka">King Ashoka</a> in the bloodiest battle of its time, which prompted Ashoka to embrace <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhism</a>. Ancient Buddhist sites, recently excavated, are scattered across Visakhapatnam, reflecting the region's Buddhist legacy.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Pavurallakonda">Pavurallakonda</h4></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Yaksha_Sculpture_Relief_at_Pavurallakonda_Buddhist_Remnant_Site_near_Bheemunipatnam.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="eramic sculptures of guardian Yakshas" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Yaksha_Sculpture_Relief_at_Pavurallakonda_Buddhist_Remnant_Site_near_Bheemunipatnam.jpg/250px-Yaksha_Sculpture_Relief_at_Pavurallakonda_Buddhist_Remnant_Site_near_Bheemunipatnam.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Yaksha_Sculpture_Relief_at_Pavurallakonda_Buddhist_Remnant_Site_near_Bheemunipatnam.jpg/330px-Yaksha_Sculpture_Relief_at_Pavurallakonda_Buddhist_Remnant_Site_near_Bheemunipatnam.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Yaksha_Sculpture_Relief_at_Pavurallakonda_Buddhist_Remnant_Site_near_Bheemunipatnam.jpg/500px-Yaksha_Sculpture_Relief_at_Pavurallakonda_Buddhist_Remnant_Site_near_Bheemunipatnam.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>Yaksha Relief at <a href="/wiki/Pavurallakonda" title="Pavurallakonda">Pavurallakonda</a> near <a href="/wiki/Bheemunipatnam" title="Bheemunipatnam">Bheemunipatnam</a></figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Pavurallakonda" title="Pavurallakonda">Pavurallakonda</a> ("pigeon hill") is a <a href="/wiki/Hillock" title="Hillock">hillock</a> west of Bhimli, about 24 km (15 mi) from Visakhapatnam. The Buddhist settlement found here is estimated to date back from the first century BCE to the second century CE. On the hillock (which overlooks the coastline) are 16 rock-cut <a href="/wiki/Cisterns" class="mw-redirect" title="Cisterns">cisterns</a> for collecting rainwater. <a href="/wiki/Gopalapatnam" title="Gopalapatnam">Gopalapatnam</a>, on the Tandava River, is a village surrounded by brick stupas, <a href="/wiki/Vihara" class="mw-redirect" title="Vihara">viharas</a>, pottery and other Buddhist artefacts.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Sankaram">Sankaram</h4></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Rock-cut_Lord_--Buddha--_Statue_at_Bojjanakonda_near_Anakapalle_of_Visakhapatnam_dist_in_AP.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Rock-cut_Lord_--Buddha--_Statue_at_Bojjanakonda_near_Anakapalle_of_Visakhapatnam_dist_in_AP.jpg/250px-Rock-cut_Lord_--Buddha--_Statue_at_Bojjanakonda_near_Anakapalle_of_Visakhapatnam_dist_in_AP.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Rock-cut_Lord_--Buddha--_Statue_at_Bojjanakonda_near_Anakapalle_of_Visakhapatnam_dist_in_AP.jpg/330px-Rock-cut_Lord_--Buddha--_Statue_at_Bojjanakonda_near_Anakapalle_of_Visakhapatnam_dist_in_AP.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Rock-cut_Lord_--Buddha--_Statue_at_Bojjanakonda_near_Anakapalle_of_Visakhapatnam_dist_in_AP.jpg/500px-Rock-cut_Lord_--Buddha--_Statue_at_Bojjanakonda_near_Anakapalle_of_Visakhapatnam_dist_in_AP.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>Stone seated <a href="/wiki/Buddharupa" class="mw-redirect" title="Buddharupa">Buddha</a> at <a href="/wiki/Bojjannakonda" title="Bojjannakonda">Bojjannakonda</a> near <a href="/wiki/Anakapalle" class="mw-redirect" title="Anakapalle">Anakapalle</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In 1907 British archaeologist Alexander Rea unearthed Sankaram, a 2,000-year-old Buddhist site. The name "Śankaram" derives from the <a href="/wiki/Sangharama" title="Sangharama">Sangharama</a> (temple or monastery). Located 40 km (25 mi) south of Visakhapatnam, it is known locally as <a href="/wiki/Bojjannakonda" title="Bojjannakonda">Bojjannakonda</a> and is a significant Buddhist site in Andhra Pradesh. The three major schools of Buddhism (Hinayana, Mahayana and Vajrayana) flourished here. The complex is known for its monolithic <a href="/wiki/Stupa" title="Stupa">stupas</a>, rock-cut caves and brick structures. The primary stupa was initially carved out of rock and covered with bricks. Excavations yielded historic pottery and <a href="/wiki/Satavahana_dynasty" title="Satavahana dynasty">Satavahana</a> coins from the first century CE. At Lingalakonda, there are also rock-cut monolithic stupas in rows spread over the hill.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The vihara, a monastery, was active for about 1,000 years.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_50-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Nearby is another Buddhist site, Bojjannakonda, with several images of the Buddha carved on the rock face of the caves. At Ligalametta there are hundreds of rock-cut monolithic stupas in rows, spread across the hill. Among other Buddhist attractions are a relic casket, three <a href="/wiki/Chaitya" title="Chaitya">chaitya</a> halls, votive platforms, stupas and <a href="/wiki/Vajrayana" title="Vajrayana">Vajrayana</a> sculptures.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Bavikonda">Bavikonda</h4></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bavikonda_stupas.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Bavikonda Buddhist Complex" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Bavikonda_stupas.JPG/220px-Bavikonda_stupas.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Bavikonda_stupas.JPG/330px-Bavikonda_stupas.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Bavikonda_stupas.JPG/440px-Bavikonda_stupas.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Bavikonda" title="Bavikonda">Bavikonda</a> stupas</figcaption></figure> <p>Bavikonda is an important Buddhist heritage site located on a hill about 15 km (9.3 mi), northeast of Visakhapatnam city. Here the Buddhist habitation is noticed on a 16 ha flat terraced area. The Hinayana school of Buddhism was practised at the monastery between the 3rd century B.C. and the 3rd century A.D. Bavikonda has remains of an entire Buddhist complex, comprising 26 structures belonging to three phases. A piece of bone stored in an urn recovered here is believed to belong to the mortal remains of the <a href="/wiki/Gautama_Buddha" class="mw-redirect" title="Gautama Buddha">Buddha</a>. The word <i>Bavikonda</i> in <a href="/wiki/Telugu_language" title="Telugu language">Telugu</a> means "a hill of wells". Fitting its name, Bavikonda is a hill with wells for the collection of rainwater. It is located 15 km (9.3 mi) from Visakhapatnam and is a significant Buddhist site. </p><p>Excavation carried out from 1982 to 1987 revealed a Buddhist establishment including a mahachaitya, also referred to as a grand stupa, embedded with relic caskets,<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a large Vihara (monastery) complex, numerous votive stupas, a stone-pillared congregation and rectangular halls and a refectory. Artifacts recovered from the site include Roman and <a href="/wiki/Satavahana_dynasty" title="Satavahana dynasty">Satavahana</a> coins and pottery dating from the third century BCE to the second century CE. A significant finding was a piece of bone (with a large quantity of ash) in an urn, which is believed to be the remains of the <a href="/wiki/Buddha" class="mw-redirect" title="Buddha">Buddha</a>. The Bavikonda site is considered one of the oldest Buddhist sites in Asia. It is a reminder of the Buddhist civilisation which once existed in southern India, and also reminiscent of <a href="/wiki/Borobudur" title="Borobudur">Borobudur</a> in Indonesia.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Thotlakonda">Thotlakonda</h4></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mahastupa_in_Thotlakonda,_Visakhapatnam_(2).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Corner of light-coloured, angular stone ruins" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Mahastupa_in_Thotlakonda%2C_Visakhapatnam_%282%29.jpg/220px-Mahastupa_in_Thotlakonda%2C_Visakhapatnam_%282%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Mahastupa_in_Thotlakonda%2C_Visakhapatnam_%282%29.jpg/330px-Mahastupa_in_Thotlakonda%2C_Visakhapatnam_%282%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Mahastupa_in_Thotlakonda%2C_Visakhapatnam_%282%29.jpg/440px-Mahastupa_in_Thotlakonda%2C_Visakhapatnam_%282%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4032" data-file-height="3024" /></a><figcaption>Third-century BCE Buddhist ruins of <a href="/wiki/Thotlakonda" title="Thotlakonda">Totlakonda</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Thotlakonda_Buddhist_Complex_in_Visakhapatnam_in_2024,_March_22.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Thotlakonda_Buddhist_Complex_in_Visakhapatnam_in_2024%2C_March_22.jpg/250px-Thotlakonda_Buddhist_Complex_in_Visakhapatnam_in_2024%2C_March_22.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="99" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Thotlakonda_Buddhist_Complex_in_Visakhapatnam_in_2024%2C_March_22.jpg/330px-Thotlakonda_Buddhist_Complex_in_Visakhapatnam_in_2024%2C_March_22.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Thotlakonda_Buddhist_Complex_in_Visakhapatnam_in_2024%2C_March_22.jpg/500px-Thotlakonda_Buddhist_Complex_in_Visakhapatnam_in_2024%2C_March_22.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="1468" /></a><figcaption>Thotlakonda Buddhist Complex</figcaption></figure> <p>About 16 km (9.9 mi) from Visakhapatnam is <a href="/wiki/Thotlakonda" title="Thotlakonda">Thotlakonda</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Buddhist" class="mw-redirect" title="Buddhist">Buddhist</a> complex situated on top of a hill. The Buddhist complex on the Mangamaripeta hilltop, locally known as <a href="/wiki/Thotlakonda" title="Thotlakonda">Totlakonda</a>, lies about 16 km (9.9 mi) from Visakhapatnam on Visakhapatnam-Bheemili Beach Road. After its discovery (during an aerial survey), the Government of Andhra Pradesh declared the 48 ha site as a protected monument in 1978. Excavations from 1988 to 1992 exposed structural remains and artefacts, classified as Religious, Secular, and Civil. These structures include the Stupa, Chaityagrihas, pillared congregation halls, bhandagaras, refectory (bhojanasala), drainage, and stone pathways. The site covers an area of 120 acres (49 hectares), and has been declared a protected area by the government of Andhra Pradesh. Excavations have revealed three kinds of structural remains: religious, secular, and civil. Structures include a mahastupa, sixteen votive <a href="/wiki/Stupa" title="Stupa">stupas</a>, a stone-pillared congregation hall, eleven rock-cut cisterns, well-paved stone pathways, an <a href="/wiki/Apse" title="Apse">apsidal</a> <a href="/wiki/Chaitya" title="Chaitya">chaitya</a>-griha, three round chaitgya-grihas, two votive platforms, ten <a href="/wiki/Vihara" class="mw-redirect" title="Vihara">viharas</a> and a kitchen complex with three halls and a refectory (dining hall). Apart from the structures, Buddhist treasures excavated include nine <a href="/wiki/Satavahana_dynasty" title="Satavahana dynasty">Satavahana</a> and five Roman silver coins, <a href="/wiki/Terracotta" title="Terracotta">terracotta</a> tiles, stucco decorative pieces, sculptured panels, miniature <a href="/wiki/Stupa" title="Stupa">stupa</a> models in stone, Buddha <a href="/wiki/Pada_(foot)" title="Pada (foot)">padas</a> depicted with <a href="/wiki/Ashtamangala" title="Ashtamangala">ashtamangala</a> symbols (i.e. the eight auspicious symbols of Swastika, Shrivasta, Nandhyavarta, Vardhamanaka, Bhadrasana, Kalasha, Minyugala and Darpan) and early pottery.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Later_history">Later history</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mor_Sjanua_Regimental_Cemetery_near_Jagadamba_junction,_Vizag.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Mor_Sjanua_Regimental_Cemetery_near_Jagadamba_junction%2C_Vizag.jpg/250px-Mor_Sjanua_Regimental_Cemetery_near_Jagadamba_junction%2C_Vizag.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Mor_Sjanua_Regimental_Cemetery_near_Jagadamba_junction%2C_Vizag.jpg/330px-Mor_Sjanua_Regimental_Cemetery_near_Jagadamba_junction%2C_Vizag.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Mor_Sjanua_Regimental_Cemetery_near_Jagadamba_junction%2C_Vizag.jpg/500px-Mor_Sjanua_Regimental_Cemetery_near_Jagadamba_junction%2C_Vizag.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6000" data-file-height="4000" /></a><figcaption>Mor Sjanua Regimental Cemetery near Jagadamba junction</figcaption></figure> <p>The territory of Visakhapatnam then came under the Andhra rulers of <a href="/wiki/Vengi" title="Vengi">Vengi</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Chalukya_dynasty" title="Chalukya dynasty">Chalukyas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pallava_dynasty" title="Pallava dynasty">Pallavas</a> ruled the land. The region was ruled by the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Ganga_dynasty" title="Eastern Ganga dynasty">Eastern Ganga king</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Gajapati_Empire" title="Gajapati Empire">Gajapati kings</a> from the 10th century to the 16th century CE. Based on archaeological evidence, the <a href="/wiki/Prabhakar" title="Prabhakar">Prabhakar</a> and the Eastern Ganga Kings built temples in the city in the 11th and 12th centuries. In the late 16th century, it came under the direct rule of the <a href="/wiki/Suryavanshi_clan" class="mw-redirect" title="Suryavanshi clan">Suryavanshi</a> king, <a href="/wiki/Vishwanath_Dev_Gajapati" title="Vishwanath Dev Gajapati">Maharaja Vishwanath Dev Gajapati</a> of <a href="/wiki/Jeypore" title="Jeypore">Jeypore</a>. However, from 1571 to 1674 it fell under the control and administration of the <a href="/wiki/Qutb_Shahi_dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Qutb Shahi dynasty">Qutb Shahi</a> kings of <a href="/wiki/Golconda_Fort" class="mw-redirect" title="Golconda Fort">Golconda</a> who appointed a governor or <a href="/wiki/Faujdar" title="Faujdar">Faujdar</a> to collect taxes in the region. This Faujdar governed the area from <a href="/wiki/Srikakulam" title="Srikakulam">Srikakulam</a> or Chicacole as it was then known. In 1674, the Maharaja of Jeypore, Vishwambhar Dev defeated the Foujdar and claimed sovereignty from the deteriorating Qutb Shahis.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Vishwambhar is also said to have defeated the Dutch East India Company who allegedly abducted locals, mostly fishermen living by the sea-shore. Later his descendant, Maharaja Raghunath Krishna Dev defeated the Seer Lascer appointed by the Mughals and maintained his rule over the region. Therefore, Visakhapatnam remained a part of the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Jeypore" class="mw-redirect" title="Kingdom of Jeypore">Kingdom of Jeypore</a> until the death of Maharaja Ram Chandra Dev I in 1711 after which it was taken over by the <a href="/wiki/Nizam_of_Hyderabad" title="Nizam of Hyderabad">Nizam of Hyderabad</a> who could only govern it for a few decades before transferring it to the British.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Even in the colonial era, the kings of Jeypore were referred to as the Maharaja or Raja of Vizagapatnam.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> European merchants from France, Holland and the <a href="/wiki/East_India_Company" title="East India Company">East India Company</a> used the natural port to export tobacco, <a href="/wiki/Paddy_(unmilled_rice)" class="mw-redirect" title="Paddy (unmilled rice)">paddy</a>, coal, iron ore, ivory, <a href="/wiki/Muslin" title="Muslin">muslin</a> and other textile products. The British developed Visakhapatnam as a prominent harbour on the east coast. The old port in <a href="/wiki/Jalari_Peta" title="Jalari Peta">Jalari Peta</a> was built and used by the Maharaja of Jeypore who also owned several ships. During the <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">First World War</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vikram_Dev_III" title="Vikram Dev III">Maharaja Vikram Dev III</a> sent his fleet of ships to aid the British and later donated the port to the British government of Madras.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_55-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is now a fish market. </p><p>Local legend tells that an <a href="/wiki/Coastal_Andhra" title="Coastal Andhra">Andhra</a> king, on his way to <a href="/wiki/Varanasi" title="Varanasi">Benares</a>, rested at Visakhapatnam and was so enchanted by its beauty that he ordered a temple to be built in honour of his family deity, Viśakha. Archaeological sources, however, reveal that the temple was probably built between the 11th and 12th centuries by the Cholas. A shipping merchant, Sankarayya Chetty, built one of the mandapams (pillared halls) of the temple. Although it no longer exists (possibly washed away about 100 years ago by a cyclonic storm), elderly residents of Visakhapatnam remember visits to the ancient shrine by their grandparents (although author Ganapatiraju Atchuta Rama Raju denies this).<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the 18th century Visakhapatnam was part of the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Circars" title="Northern Circars">Northern Circars</a>, a region comprising <a href="/wiki/Coastal_Andhra" title="Coastal Andhra">coastal Andhra</a> and southern coastal Odisha which was first under French control and later British. Visakhapatnam became a district in the <a href="/wiki/Madras_Presidency" title="Madras Presidency">Madras Presidency</a> of <a href="/wiki/British_Raj" title="British Raj">British India</a>. In September 1804, British and French squadrons fought the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Vizagapatam" title="Battle of Vizagapatam">Battle of Vizagapatam</a> near the harbour. After India's independence, it was the largest district in the country and was subsequently divided into the districts of <a href="/wiki/Srikakulam" title="Srikakulam">Srikakulam</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vizianagaram" title="Vizianagaram">Vizianagaram</a> and Visakhapatnam. </p><p>Part of the city is known by its colonial British name, Waltair; during the colonial era, the city's hub was the Waltair railway station and a part of the city is still called Waltair. </p><p>On 7 May 2020, the city suffered an industrial accident when a polymer plant leaked toxic <a href="/wiki/Styrene" title="Styrene">styrene</a> gas, as it restarted operations after the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_lockdown_in_India" title="COVID-19 lockdown in India">Coronavirus lockdown</a>. This <a href="/wiki/Visakhapatnam_gas_leak" title="Visakhapatnam gas leak">gas leak</a> killed at least eleven people, and drew comparisons to the <a href="/wiki/Bhopal_disaster" title="Bhopal disaster">Bhopal disaster</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Boats_in_Kondakarla_ava_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Boats_in_Kondakarla_ava_2.jpg/220px-Boats_in_Kondakarla_ava_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Boats_in_Kondakarla_ava_2.jpg/330px-Boats_in_Kondakarla_ava_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Boats_in_Kondakarla_ava_2.jpg/440px-Boats_in_Kondakarla_ava_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4045" data-file-height="3032" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Kondakarla_Ava" title="Kondakarla Ava">Kondakarla Ava</a>, a bird sanctuary near Visakhapatnam</figcaption></figure> <p>The city is situated between the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Ghats" title="Eastern Ghats">Eastern Ghats</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Bay_of_Bengal" title="Bay of Bengal">Bay of Bengal</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-location_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-location-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The city coordinates lies between 17.7041 N and 83.2977 E.<sup id="cite_ref-geo_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-geo-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-climate_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-climate-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The city's area is 682 km<sup>2</sup>. The average elevation is 45 metres.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Visakhpatnam is situated in <a href="/wiki/Coastal_Andhra" title="Coastal Andhra">Coastal Andhra</a> Region.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The city is surrounded by the <a href="/wiki/Simhachalam_Hill_Range" title="Simhachalam Hill Range">Simhachalam Hill Range</a> to the west, the <a href="/wiki/Yarada_Hills" title="Yarada Hills">Yarada Hills</a> to the southeast, and <a href="/wiki/Kambalakonda_Wildlife_Sanctuary" title="Kambalakonda Wildlife Sanctuary">Kambalakonda Wildlife Sanctuary</a> to the northwest. The hills play an important role in Visakhapatnam's ecological environment and cover over 621.52  km<sup>2</sup>.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hills_in_Visakhapatnam">Hills in Visakhapatnam</h3></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Ghats" title="Eastern Ghats">Eastern Ghats</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simhachalam_Hill_Range" title="Simhachalam Hill Range">Simhachalam Hills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yarada_Hills" title="Yarada Hills">Yarada Hills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erra_Matti_Dibbalu" title="Erra Matti Dibbalu">Erra Matti Dibbalu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dolphin%27s_Nose" title="Dolphin's Nose">Dolphin's Nose Hills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kailasagiri" title="Kailasagiri">Kailasagiri Hills</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Climate">Climate</h3></div> <figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Klimadiagramm-deutsch-Visakhapatnam-Indien.png" class="mw-file-description" title="The average temperature of visakhapatnam"><img alt="The average temperature of visakhapatnam" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Klimadiagramm-deutsch-Visakhapatnam-Indien.png/500px-Klimadiagramm-deutsch-Visakhapatnam-Indien.png" decoding="async" width="500" height="347" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Klimadiagramm-deutsch-Visakhapatnam-Indien.png/750px-Klimadiagramm-deutsch-Visakhapatnam-Indien.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Klimadiagramm-deutsch-Visakhapatnam-Indien.png/1000px-Klimadiagramm-deutsch-Visakhapatnam-Indien.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="710" /></a><figcaption>The average temperature of visakhapatnam</figcaption></figure> <p>Visakhapatnam has a <a href="/wiki/Tropical_savanna_climate" title="Tropical savanna climate">tropical savanna climate</a> (<a href="/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen_climate_classification" title="Köppen climate classification">Köppen</a>: <i>Aw</i>, closely bordering <i>As</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-climate_17-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-climate-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The annual mean temperatures range between 24.7–30.6 °C (76–87 °F), with the maximum in May and the minimum in January; the minimum temperatures ranges between 17–27 °C (63–81 °F). The highest maximum temperature ever recorded was 42.0 °C (107.6 °F) in 1978, and the lowest was 10.5 °C (51 °F) on 6 January 1962.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It receives rainfall from the <a href="/wiki/Southwest_monsoon" class="mw-redirect" title="Southwest monsoon">South-west</a> and <a href="/wiki/North-east_monsoon" class="mw-redirect" title="North-east monsoon">North-east monsoons</a><sup id="cite_ref-climate_17-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-climate-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the average annual rainfall recorded is 1,118.8 mm (44.05 in).<sup id="cite_ref-IMD_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IMD-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In October 2014 <a href="/wiki/Cyclone_Hudhud" title="Cyclone Hudhud">Cyclone Hudhud</a> made landfall near Visakhapatnam.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:auto; text-align:center; line-height:1.2em;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="14">Climate data for Visakhapatnam (1991–2020) </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Month </th> <th scope="col">Jan </th> <th scope="col">Feb </th> <th scope="col">Mar </th> <th scope="col">Apr </th> <th scope="col">May </th> <th scope="col">Jun </th> <th scope="col">Jul </th> <th scope="col">Aug </th> <th scope="col">Sep </th> <th scope="col">Oct </th> <th scope="col">Nov </th> <th scope="col">Dec </th> <th scope="col" style="border-left-width:medium">Year </th></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record high °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FF4000; color:#000000;" class="notheme">32.1<br />(89.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF3300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">34.0<br />(93.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF2100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">36.6<br />(97.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF2200; color:#000000;" class="notheme">36.5<br />(97.7) </td> <td style="background: #F80000; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">42.0<br />(107.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF0300; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">41.0<br />(105.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF0B00; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">39.9<br />(103.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF1C00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">37.4<br />(99.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF1B00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">37.5<br />(99.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF2600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">35.9<br />(96.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF2D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">34.9<br />(94.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF3900; color:#000000;" class="notheme">33.2<br />(91.8) </td> <td style="background: #F80000; color:#FFFFFF; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">42.0<br />(107.6) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily maximum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FF5C00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">28.1<br />(82.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF5200; color:#000000;" class="notheme">29.6<br />(85.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF4600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31.2<br />(88.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF4000; color:#000000;" class="notheme">32.1<br />(89.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF3800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">33.3<br />(91.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF3B00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">32.8<br />(91.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF4500; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31.4<br />(88.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF4400; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31.5<br />(88.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF4400; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31.6<br />(88.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF4400; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31.5<br />(88.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF4D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">30.3<br />(86.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF5800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">28.7<br />(83.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF4800; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">31.0<br />(87.8) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily minimum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FF9022; color:#000000;" class="notheme">20.5<br />(68.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF850C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">22.1<br />(71.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF7400; color:#000000;" class="notheme">24.6<br />(76.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF6700; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26.5<br />(79.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF5E00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">27.8<br />(82.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF6100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">27.4<br />(81.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF6800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26.4<br />(79.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF6900; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26.2<br />(79.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF6A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26.0<br />(78.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF7000; color:#000000;" class="notheme">25.2<br />(77.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF7E00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">23.2<br />(73.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF8D1B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">21.0<br />(69.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF7300; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">24.7<br />(76.5) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record low °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FFB871; color:#000000;" class="notheme">14.8<br />(58.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFA54B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">17.5<br />(63.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF9831; color:#000000;" class="notheme">19.4<br />(66.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF9730; color:#000000;" class="notheme">19.5<br />(67.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF8D1B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">21.0<br />(69.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF8A16; color:#000000;" class="notheme">21.4<br />(70.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF8D1B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">21.0<br />(69.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF9226; color:#000000;" class="notheme">20.2<br />(68.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF8B17; color:#000000;" class="notheme">21.3<br />(70.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF9123; color:#000000;" class="notheme">20.4<br />(68.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFA44A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">17.6<br />(63.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFAF60; color:#000000;" class="notheme">16.0<br />(60.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFB871; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">14.8<br />(58.6) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average rainfall mm (inches) </th> <td style="background: #EEFFEE; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.8<br />(0.43) </td> <td style="background: #F0FFF0; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.9<br />(0.35) </td> <td style="background: #F1FFF1; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.9<br />(0.35) </td> <td style="background: #D3FFD3; color:#000000;" class="notheme">28.4<br />(1.12) </td> <td style="background: #91FF91; color:#000000;" class="notheme">73.6<br />(2.90) </td> <td style="background: #2FFF2F; color:#000000;" class="notheme">134.5<br />(5.30) </td> <td style="background: #38FF38; color:#000000;" class="notheme">133.0<br />(5.24) </td> <td style="background: #08FF08; color:#000000;" class="notheme">165.3<br />(6.51) </td> <td style="background: #00D100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">194.9<br />(7.67) </td> <td style="background: #009800; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">239.9<br />(9.44) </td> <td style="background: #62FF62; color:#000000;" class="notheme">101.7<br />(4.00) </td> <td style="background: #EBFFEB; color:#000000;" class="notheme">13.2<br />(0.52) </td> <td style="background: #72FF72; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">1,113.1<br />(43.82) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average rainy days </th> <td style="background: #F7F7FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.6 </td> <td style="background: #F4F4FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.8 </td> <td style="background: #F6F6FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.7 </td> <td style="background: #EDEDFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">1.4 </td> <td style="background: #D6D6FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.3 </td> <td style="background: #ACACFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">6.5 </td> <td style="background: #9696FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.5 </td> <td style="background: #8D8DFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.2 </td> <td style="background: #7B7BFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.3 </td> <td style="background: #9797FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.4 </td> <td style="background: #D7D7FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.1 </td> <td style="background: #F3F3FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.9 </td> <td style="background: #C6C6FF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">53.7 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average <a href="/wiki/Relative_humidity" class="mw-redirect" title="Relative humidity">relative humidity</a> (%) <span style="font-size:90%;" class="nowrap">(at 17:30 <a href="/wiki/Indian_Standard_Time" title="Indian Standard Time">IST</a>)</span> </th> <td style="background: #0000F6; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">69 </td> <td style="background: #0000F2; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">70 </td> <td style="background: #0000E2; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">74 </td> <td style="background: #0000DB; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">76 </td> <td style="background: #0000DB; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">76 </td> <td style="background: #0000DB; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">76 </td> <td style="background: #0000D7; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">77 </td> <td style="background: #0000D3; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">78 </td> <td style="background: #0000CB; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">80 </td> <td style="background: #0000E2; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">74 </td> <td style="background: #0000F9; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">68 </td> <td style="background: #0606FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">65 </td> <td style="background: #0000E2; color:#FFFFFF; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">74 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:95%;">Source: <a href="/wiki/India_Meteorological_Department" title="India Meteorological Department">India Meteorological Department</a><sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <div> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:auto; text-align:center; line-height:1.2em;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="14">Climate data for <a href="/wiki/Visakhapatnam_Airport" title="Visakhapatnam Airport">Visakhapatnam Airport</a> (1991–2020, extremes 1901–present) </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Month </th> <th scope="col">Jan </th> <th scope="col">Feb </th> <th scope="col">Mar </th> <th scope="col">Apr </th> <th scope="col">May </th> <th scope="col">Jun </th> <th scope="col">Jul </th> <th scope="col">Aug </th> <th scope="col">Sep </th> <th scope="col">Oct </th> <th scope="col">Nov </th> <th scope="col">Dec </th> <th scope="col" style="border-left-width:medium">Year </th></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record high °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FF2E00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">34.8<br />(94.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF1500; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">38.4<br />(101.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF0300; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">41.0<br />(105.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF0600; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">40.6<br />(105.1) </td> <td style="background: #CE0000; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">45.0<br />(113.0) </td> <td style="background: #C90000; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">45.4<br />(113.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF0000; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">41.4<br />(106.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF1200; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">38.8<br />(101.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF1600; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">38.2<br />(100.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF1D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">37.2<br />(99.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF2C00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">35.0<br />(95.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF3300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">34.0<br />(93.2) </td> <td style="background: #C90000; color:#FFFFFF; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">45.4<br />(113.7) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily maximum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FF5100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">29.7<br />(85.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF4200; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31.9<br />(89.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF2F00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">34.6<br />(94.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF2700; color:#000000;" class="notheme">35.7<br />(96.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF2100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">36.7<br />(98.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF2A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">35.4<br />(95.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF3600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">33.6<br />(92.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF3900; color:#000000;" class="notheme">33.2<br />(91.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF3900; color:#000000;" class="notheme">33.2<br />(91.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF3D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">32.6<br />(90.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF4700; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31.1<br />(88.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF4F00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">29.9<br />(85.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF3900; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">33.1<br />(91.6) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Daily mean °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FF7500; color:#000000;" class="notheme">24.5<br />(76.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF6C00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">25.8<br />(78.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF5D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">28.0<br />(82.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF5300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">29.4<br />(84.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF4A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">30.7<br />(87.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF4D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">30.2<br />(86.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF5600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">29.0<br />(84.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF5600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">29.0<br />(84.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF5600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">28.9<br />(84.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF5900; color:#000000;" class="notheme">28.5<br />(83.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF6300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">27.0<br />(80.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF7100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">25.1<br />(77.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF5D00; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">28.0<br />(82.4) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily minimum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FF9F40; color:#000000;" class="notheme">18.3<br />(64.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF9123; color:#000000;" class="notheme">20.4<br />(68.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF7A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">23.7<br />(74.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF6800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26.3<br />(79.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF5D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">28.0<br />(82.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF5E00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">27.8<br />(82.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF6500; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26.8<br />(80.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF6700; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26.5<br />(79.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF6A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26.1<br />(79.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF7100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">25.1<br />(77.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF860D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">22.0<br />(71.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF9D3B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">18.7<br />(65.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF7700; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">24.1<br />(75.4) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record low °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FFD5AC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.5<br />(50.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFC58C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12.8<br />(55.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFBA76; color:#000000;" class="notheme">14.4<br />(57.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF9F40; color:#000000;" class="notheme">18.3<br />(64.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF9429; color:#000000;" class="notheme">20.0<br />(68.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF8C1A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">21.1<br />(70.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF8B17; color:#000000;" class="notheme">21.3<br />(70.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF8C1A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">21.1<br />(70.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFA54B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">17.5<br />(63.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFA44A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">17.6<br />(63.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFC58B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12.9<br />(55.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFD0A1; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.3<br />(52.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFD5AC; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">10.5<br />(50.9) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average rainfall mm (inches) </th> <td style="background: #F2FFF2; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.3<br />(0.33) </td> <td style="background: #EFFFEF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.5<br />(0.37) </td> <td style="background: #F5FFF5; color:#000000;" class="notheme">6.6<br />(0.26) </td> <td style="background: #D8FFD8; color:#000000;" class="notheme">24.7<br />(0.97) </td> <td style="background: #9AFF9A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">67.3<br />(2.65) </td> <td style="background: #35FF35; color:#000000;" class="notheme">131.1<br />(5.16) </td> <td style="background: #49FF49; color:#000000;" class="notheme">121.6<br />(4.79) </td> <td style="background: #21FF21; color:#000000;" class="notheme">148.6<br />(5.85) </td> <td style="background: #00BD00; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">207.9<br />(8.19) </td> <td style="background: #00A300; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">232.2<br />(9.14) </td> <td style="background: #78FF78; color:#000000;" class="notheme">87.5<br />(3.44) </td> <td style="background: #F1FFF1; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.3<br />(0.37) </td> <td style="background: #79FF79; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">1,054.5<br />(41.52) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average rainy days </th> <td style="background: #F5F5FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.8 </td> <td style="background: #F2F2FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.9 </td> <td style="background: #F7F7FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.6 </td> <td style="background: #EBEBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">1.5 </td> <td style="background: #D5D5FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.4 </td> <td style="background: #ACACFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">6.5 </td> <td style="background: #9C9CFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.0 </td> <td style="background: #9898FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.3 </td> <td style="background: #7777FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.6 </td> <td style="background: #9797FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.4 </td> <td style="background: #D8D8FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.0 </td> <td style="background: #F6F6FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.7 </td> <td style="background: #C7C7FF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">52.6 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average <a href="/wiki/Relative_humidity" class="mw-redirect" title="Relative humidity">relative humidity</a> (%) <span style="font-size:90%;" class="nowrap">(at 17:30 <a href="/wiki/Indian_Standard_Time" title="Indian Standard Time">IST</a>)</span> </th> <td style="background: #0A0AFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">64 </td> <td style="background: #1515FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">61 </td> <td style="background: #1111FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">62 </td> <td style="background: #0202FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">66 </td> <td style="background: #0202FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">66 </td> <td style="background: #0000F9; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">68 </td> <td style="background: #0000EE; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">71 </td> <td style="background: #0000E6; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">73 </td> <td style="background: #0000DB; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">76 </td> <td style="background: #0000E6; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">73 </td> <td style="background: #0000FD; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">67 </td> <td style="background: #1111FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">62 </td> <td style="background: #0000FD; color:#FFFFFF; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">67 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean monthly <a href="/wiki/Sunshine_duration" title="Sunshine duration">sunshine hours</a> </th> <td style="background: #E8E800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">272.8 </td> <td style="background: #EEEE0A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">271.2 </td> <td style="background: #E8E800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">272.8 </td> <td style="background: #E8E800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">264.0 </td> <td style="background: #E3E300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">251.1 </td> <td style="background: #BFBF2A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">135.0 </td> <td style="background: #BBBB44; color:#000000;" class="notheme">130.2 </td> <td style="background: #BCBC3B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">133.3 </td> <td style="background: #CECE00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">168.0 </td> <td style="background: #DEDE00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">229.4 </td> <td style="background: #DFDF00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">228.0 </td> <td style="background: #E7E700; color:#000000;" class="notheme">269.7 </td> <td style="background: #DCDC00; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">2,625.5 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily <a href="/wiki/Sunshine_duration" title="Sunshine duration">sunshine hours</a> </th> <td style="background: #E9E900; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.8 </td> <td style="background: #EEEE0C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.6 </td> <td style="background: #E9E900; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.8 </td> <td style="background: #E9E900; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.8 </td> <td style="background: #E4E400; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.1 </td> <td style="background: #C0C024; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.5 </td> <td style="background: #BBBB3E; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.2 </td> <td style="background: #BDBD36; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.3 </td> <td style="background: #CFCF00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">5.6 </td> <td style="background: #DFDF00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.4 </td> <td style="background: #E0E000; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.6 </td> <td style="background: #E8E800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.7 </td> <td style="background: #DDDD00; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">7.2 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average <a href="/wiki/Ultraviolet_index" title="Ultraviolet index">ultraviolet index</a> </th> <td style="background: #E53210; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">9 </td> <td style="background: #A45693; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">11 </td> <td style="background: #A45693; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">12 </td> <td style="background: #A45693; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">12 </td> <td style="background: #A45693; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">12 </td> <td style="background: #A45693; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">12 </td> <td style="background: #A45693; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">12 </td> <td style="background: #A45693; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">12 </td> <td style="background: #A45693; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">12 </td> <td style="background: #E53210; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">10 </td> <td style="background: #E53210; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">9 </td> <td style="background: #E53210; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">8 </td> <td style="background: #A45693; color:#FFFFFF; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">11 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:95%;">Source 1: <a href="/wiki/India_Meteorological_Department" title="India Meteorological Department">India Meteorological Department</a> (sun 1971–2000)<sup id="cite_ref-IMDnormals_68-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IMDnormals-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-IMDextremes_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IMDextremes-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-IMDsun_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IMDsun-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-IMDcityrainfall_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IMDcityrainfall-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-IMDcityextremes2_72-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IMDcityextremes2-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:95%;">Source 2: Tokyo Climate Center (mean temperatures 1991–2020)<sup id="cite_ref-TCC_73-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TCC-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Weather Atlas<sup id="cite_ref-Weather_Atlas_74-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Weather_Atlas-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <div> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:auto; text-align:center; line-height:1.2em;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="14">Climate data for Visakhapatnam (<a href="/wiki/Dolphin%27s_Nose" title="Dolphin's Nose">Dolphin's Nose</a>) 1981–2010, extremes 1970–2005) </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Month </th> <th scope="col">Jan </th> <th scope="col">Feb </th> <th scope="col">Mar </th> <th scope="col">Apr </th> <th scope="col">May </th> <th scope="col">Jun </th> <th scope="col">Jul </th> <th scope="col">Aug </th> <th scope="col">Sep </th> <th scope="col">Oct </th> <th scope="col">Nov </th> <th scope="col">Dec </th> <th scope="col" style="border-left-width:medium">Year </th></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record high °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FF4A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">30.7<br />(87.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF2C00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">35.0<br />(95.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF2400; color:#000000;" class="notheme">36.2<br />(97.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF2500; color:#000000;" class="notheme">36.1<br />(97.0) </td> <td style="background: #ED0000; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">42.8<br />(109.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF0B00; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">39.8<br />(103.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF0B00; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">39.8<br />(103.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF2400; color:#000000;" class="notheme">36.2<br />(97.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF2100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">36.6<br />(97.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF3000; color:#000000;" class="notheme">34.5<br />(94.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF3E00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">32.4<br />(90.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF4500; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31.4<br />(88.5) </td> <td style="background: #ED0000; color:#FFFFFF; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">42.8<br />(109.0) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily maximum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FF6200; color:#000000;" class="notheme">27.2<br />(81.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF6400; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26.9<br />(80.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF4B00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">30.6<br />(87.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF4400; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31.5<br />(88.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF3D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">32.6<br />(90.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF4000; color:#000000;" class="notheme">32.2<br />(90.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF4B00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">30.6<br />(87.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF4B00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">30.5<br />(86.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF4B00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">30.6<br />(87.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF4D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">30.2<br />(86.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF5700; color:#000000;" class="notheme">28.8<br />(83.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF6100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">27.4<br />(81.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF4E00; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">30.1<br />(86.2) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily minimum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FF952C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">19.8<br />(67.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF8A16; color:#000000;" class="notheme">21.4<br />(70.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF7C00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">23.5<br />(74.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF7100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">25.0<br />(77.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF6A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26.1<br />(79.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF6A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26.0<br />(78.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF7100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">25.0<br />(77.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF7300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">24.8<br />(76.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF7300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">24.8<br />(76.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF7900; color:#000000;" class="notheme">23.8<br />(74.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF8710; color:#000000;" class="notheme">21.8<br />(71.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF952C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">19.8<br />(67.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF7C00; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">23.5<br />(74.3) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record low °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FFB266; color:#000000;" class="notheme">15.6<br />(60.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFA449; color:#000000;" class="notheme">17.7<br />(63.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFA64D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">17.4<br />(63.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFA246; color:#000000;" class="notheme">17.9<br />(64.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF9E3E; color:#000000;" class="notheme">18.5<br />(65.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF9F3F; color:#000000;" class="notheme">18.4<br />(65.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF9F3F; color:#000000;" class="notheme">18.4<br />(65.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF962E; color:#000000;" class="notheme">19.6<br />(67.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF9C39; color:#000000;" class="notheme">18.8<br />(65.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF9831; color:#000000;" class="notheme">19.4<br />(66.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFAD5C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">16.3<br />(61.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFBC7A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">14.1<br />(57.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFBC7A; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">14.1<br />(57.4) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average rainfall mm (inches) </th> <td style="background: #E9FFE9; color:#000000;" class="notheme">14.3<br />(0.56) </td> <td style="background: #CFFFCF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">28.9<br />(1.14) </td> <td style="background: #E9FFE9; color:#000000;" class="notheme">14.6<br />(0.57) </td> <td style="background: #D8FFD8; color:#000000;" class="notheme">25.0<br />(0.98) </td> <td style="background: #9CFF9C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">66.0<br />(2.60) </td> <td style="background: #59FF59; color:#000000;" class="notheme">107.5<br />(4.23) </td> <td style="background: #3AFF3A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">131.8<br />(5.19) </td> <td style="background: #39FF39; color:#000000;" class="notheme">132.6<br />(5.22) </td> <td style="background: #06FF06; color:#000000;" class="notheme">161.6<br />(6.36) </td> <td style="background: #006B00; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">270.4<br />(10.65) </td> <td style="background: #5DFF5D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">105.1<br />(4.14) </td> <td style="background: #F9FFF9; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.5<br />(0.14) </td> <td style="background: #78FF78; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">1,061.2<br />(41.78) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average rainy days </th> <td style="background: #F2F2FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">1.0 </td> <td style="background: #F0F0FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">1.1 </td> <td style="background: #FAFAFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.4 </td> <td style="background: #EDEDFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">1.4 </td> <td style="background: #D5D5FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.4 </td> <td style="background: #BABAFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">5.4 </td> <td style="background: #9E9EFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.8 </td> <td style="background: #A3A3FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.4 </td> <td style="background: #9292FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.5 </td> <td style="background: #9898FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.3 </td> <td style="background: #CCCCFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.0 </td> <td style="background: #F6F6FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.7 </td> <td style="background: #CBCBFF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">49.3 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average <a href="/wiki/Relative_humidity" class="mw-redirect" title="Relative humidity">relative humidity</a> (%) <span style="font-size:90%;" class="nowrap">(at 8:30 <a href="/wiki/Indian_Standard_Time" title="Indian Standard Time">IST</a>)</span> </th> <td style="background: #0000D3; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">78 </td> <td style="background: #0000DB; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">76 </td> <td style="background: #0000DF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">75 </td> <td style="background: #0000D3; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">78 </td> <td style="background: #0000D7; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">77 </td> <td style="background: #0000CF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">79 </td> <td style="background: #0000C0; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">83 </td> <td style="background: #0000C0; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">83 </td> <td style="background: #0000C4; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">82 </td> <td style="background: #0000CF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">79 </td> <td style="background: #0000E6; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">73 </td> <td style="background: #0000EA; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">72 </td> <td style="background: #0000DB; color:#FFFFFF; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">76 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:95%;">Source: <a href="/wiki/India_Meteorological_Department" title="India Meteorological Department">India Meteorological Department</a><sup id="cite_ref-IMDnormals_68-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IMDnormals-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-IMDextremes_69-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IMDextremes-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div><p>Vishakhapatnam has been ranked 22nd best "National Clean Air City" (under Category 1 >10L Population cities) in India.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2></div> <p>As of 2011<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visakhapatnam&action=edit">[update]</a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Census_of_India" title="Census of India">census of India</a>, Visakhapatnam had a population of 1,728,128, of which males were 873,599 and females were 854,529 – a <a href="/wiki/Human_sex_ratio" title="Human sex ratio">sex ratio</a> of 978 females per 1000 males. The population density was 18,480/km<sup>2</sup> (47,900/sq mi). There were 164,129 children in the age group of 0–6 years, with 84,298 boys and 79,831 girls – a sex ratio was 947 girls per 1000 boys. The average <a href="/wiki/Literacy_in_India" title="Literacy in India">literacy rate</a> stood at 81.79% with a total of 1,279,137 literates, of which 688,678 were males and 590,459 were females.<sup id="cite_ref-census_76-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-census-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-population_77-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-population-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is ranked 122 in the list of fastest-growing cities in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The total slum population covers 44.61% of the total population which implies 770,971 people reside in slums.<sup id="cite_ref-census-2011_79-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-census-2011-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The recent estimates of city's population are 2,358,412 in 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Language_and_religion">Language and religion</h3></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1279587269">.mw-parser-output .smooth-pie{display:none;position:relative;width:100px;height:100px;border-radius:50%;background-color:yellowgreen;color:black;border:1px solid black}.mw-parser-output .smooth-pie div{position:absolute;transform-origin:left bottom;background-color:#655;color:black;top:0;left:50%;width:50%;height:50%;border-radius:0 500%0 0}.mw-parser-output .smooth-pie .pie50{transform-origin:left center;height:100%;border-radius:0 100%100%0/50%}.mw-parser-output .smooth-pie .pie12-5{clip-path:polygon(0%0%,100%0%,0 100%)}.mw-parser-output .smooth-pie .pie5{clip-path:polygon(0%0%,32.49197%0%,0 100%)}.mw-parser-output .smooth-pie .pie7{clip-path:polygon(0%0%,47.056428%0%,0 100%)}.mw-parser-output .smooth-pie .pie1{clip-path:polygon(0%0%,6.2914667%0%,0 100%)}@supports(clip-path:circle(50%)){.mw-parser-output .smooth-pie{display:block}}.mw-parser-output .smooth-pie-container{display:flex;align-items:flex-start;gap:1em;flex-wrap:wrap}.mw-parser-output .smooth-pie-legend{list-style-type:none!important;margin:0!important;padding:0!important}.mw-parser-output .smooth-pie-legend>li{display:flex;align-items:baseline;gap:.5em;margin:0;margin-bottom:0.1em}.mw-parser-output .smooth-pie-legend>li>span{display:block;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .smooth-pie-legend>li>.l-color{border:1px solid var(--color-base,black);width:.8em;height:.8em;flex-shrink:0}.mw-parser-output .pie-thumb .smooth-pie-container{padding:.5em;padding-bottom:0;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .pie-thumb .smooth-pie-caption{margin-bottom:1em;font-size:94%}.mw-parser-output .thumbinner>.smooth-pie-container{flex-direction:column-reverse}@media screen and (min-width:641px){.mw-parser-output .thumbinner>.smooth-pie-container{width:min-content}}@media print{.mw-parser-output .smooth-pie-container{break-inside:avoid-page}}body.mw-mf .mw-parser-output .thumbinner .smooth-pie-container{align-items:center}body.mw-mf .mw-parser-output .thumbinner .smooth-pie-legend-container{font-size:0.8125rem;line-height:1.5;color:var(--color-subtle,#54595d)}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .thumbinner .smooth-pie-legend{display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(auto-fill,minmax(190px,1fr));gap:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .thumbinner .smooth-pie-footer{margin-top:.5em}}</style> <div class="pie-thumb thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner"><div class="smooth-pie-container" style=""> <div class="smooth-pie-legend-container"><div class="smooth-pie-caption">Languages of Visakhapatnam (2011)<sup id="cite_ref-language_81-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-language-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div> <ol class="smooth-pie-legend"> <li><span class="l-color" style="-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact; print-color-adjust: exact;background:steelblue;color:#000"></span><span class="l-label"><a href="/wiki/Telugu_language" title="Telugu language">Telugu</a> (92.13%)</span></li> <li><span class="l-color" style="-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact; print-color-adjust: exact;background:green;color:#000"></span><span class="l-label"><a href="/wiki/Urdu" title="Urdu">Urdu</a> (2.77%)</span></li> <li><span class="l-color" style="-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact; print-color-adjust: exact;background:orange;color:#000"></span><span class="l-label"><a href="/wiki/Hindi" title="Hindi">Hindi</a> (2.19%)</span></li> <li><span class="l-color" style="-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact; print-color-adjust: exact;background:saddlebrown;color:#000"></span><span class="l-label"><a href="/wiki/Odia_language" title="Odia language">Odia</a> (0.92%)</span></li> <li><span class="l-color" style="-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact; print-color-adjust: exact;background:grey;color:#000"></span><span class="l-label">Others (1.99%)</span></li> </ol> </div> <div class="smooth-pie" style="width:200px;height:200px;background:grey;color:#000;-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact; print-color-adjust: exact;" title="Others (1.99%)" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="pie50" style="background:steelblue;color:#000" title="Telugu (92.13%)"></div> <div class="pie50" style="background:steelblue;color:#000; transform: rotate(0.421turn)" title="Telugu (92.13%)"></div> <div style="transform: rotate(0.921turn); background:green;color:#000; clip-path: polygon(0% 0%, 17.77670111% 0%, 0 100%)" title="Urdu (2.77%)"></div> <div style="transform: rotate(0.949turn); background:orange;color:#000; clip-path: polygon(0% 0%, 13.91172711% 0%, 0 100%)" title="Hindi (2.19%)"></div> <div style="transform: rotate(0.971turn); background:saddlebrown;color:#000; clip-path: polygon(0% 0%, 5.66090212% 0%, 0 100%)" title="Odia (0.92%)"></div> </div> </div></div></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Telugu_people" title="Telugu people">Telugu</a> is the official and the most predominantly spoken language by native speakers.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Two dialects of <a href="/wiki/Telugu_language" title="Telugu language">Telugu</a> are spoken by the people, the common dialect and the <a href="/wiki/Uttarandhra" class="mw-redirect" title="Uttarandhra">Uttarandhra</a> (North Eastern Andhra) dialect. The latter is mainly spoken by the people who originally belong to the districts of <a href="/wiki/Vizianagaram" title="Vizianagaram">Vizianagaram</a> and <a href="/wiki/Srikakulam" title="Srikakulam">Srikakulam</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Visakhapatnam_language_84-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Visakhapatnam_language-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A cosmopolitan population of Visakhapatnam comprises Tamils,<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Malayalis,<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sindhis,<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Kannadigas,<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Odias" class="mw-redirect" title="Odias">Odias</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bengalis and Bihari migrants from other regions of India.<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There is also an Anglo-Indian community, regarded as the first cosmopolitans of the city.<sup id="cite_ref-angloindian_95-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-angloindian-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to the 2011 census, Telugu is the most spoken language in the city, with 92.13% speakers, followed by <a href="/wiki/Urdu" title="Urdu">Urdu</a> (2.77%), <a href="/wiki/Hindi" title="Hindi">Hindi</a> (2.19%), <a href="/wiki/Odia_language" title="Odia language">Odia</a> (0.92%).<sup id="cite_ref-language_81-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-language-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="barbox tleft" style="overflow-x: auto;"> <div style="border:1px solid silver; font-size:88%; padding:0.4em; width:auto; background: var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,white); color: var(--color-base,black)"> <table style="text-align:left; border-collapse:collapse; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr style="background:#fcd116"><th style="text-align:center;" colspan="5">Religion in Visakhapatnam (2011)<sup id="cite_ref-Religion_96-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Religion-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th></tr> <tr style="font-size:88%; height:4px;"> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; text-align:left;"></td> <td style="width:100px; text-align:left;"></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; width:1em; text-align:right;"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hinduism</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:darkorange; width:92.32%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">92.32%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Andhra_Muslims" title="Andhra Muslims">Islam</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:green; width:3.85%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">3.85%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Telugu_Christians" title="Telugu Christians">Christianity</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:dodgerblue; width:3.07%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">3.07%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Other or not stated</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:black; width:0.76%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">0.76%</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div> <p><a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hinduism</a> is practised by the majority of its citizens, followed by Islam and Christianity. The area practised <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhism</a> in the ancient past, as evidenced by the many Buddhist <a href="/wiki/Sangharama" title="Sangharama">sangharamas</a> in the outlying areas but the population of Buddhists has waned, with approximately 0.03% population in the entire city based on the recent census.<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Administration">Administration</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Administration_of_Visakhapatnam" title="Administration of Visakhapatnam">Administration of Visakhapatnam</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Collectorate_Building,_Visakhapatnam,_AP_06.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Collectorate_Building%2C_Visakhapatnam%2C_AP_06.jpg/220px-Collectorate_Building%2C_Visakhapatnam%2C_AP_06.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Collectorate_Building%2C_Visakhapatnam%2C_AP_06.jpg/330px-Collectorate_Building%2C_Visakhapatnam%2C_AP_06.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Collectorate_Building%2C_Visakhapatnam%2C_AP_06.jpg/440px-Collectorate_Building%2C_Visakhapatnam%2C_AP_06.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2662" data-file-height="1497" /></a><figcaption>Collectorate Building, Visakhapatnam</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Greater_Visakhapatnam_Municipal_Corporation" title="Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation">Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation</a> (GVMC) is the civic body that oversees the civic needs of the city.<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of the earliest municipalities in this area, the Vizag (Visakhapatnam) Municipality was set up in 1858 to fulfill the basic infrastructural needs of the people. It was converted into a municipal corporation in 1979. Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation came into existence on 21 November 2005 after the release of G.O by Govt of Andhra Pradesh.<sup id="cite_ref-gvmc_99-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gvmc-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It has a jurisdictional area of 681.96 km<sup>2</sup> (263.31 sq mi), which includes the merged municipalities of <a href="/wiki/Gajuwaka" title="Gajuwaka">Gajuwaka</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anakapalle" class="mw-redirect" title="Anakapalle">Anakapalle</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bheemunipatnam" title="Bheemunipatnam">Bheemunipatnam</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-civicbody_100-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-civicbody-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-thehinducivic_101-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thehinducivic-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although as per the 2011 census, it is 513.61 km<sup>2</sup> (198.31 sq mi) mentioned in the district town amenities handbook of Andhra Pradesh, portraying a rise in area covered by the municipal corporation in these years<sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The municipal corporation of Vishakapatnam is governed by three acts. First is the State Municipal Act, the Andhra Pradesh Municipalities Act 1965, the Andhra Pradesh Municipal Corporations 1994 Act, as well as an act specific to the Vishakapatnam Municipal Corporation Act 1979.<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The city is divided into 9 zones, In a recent agglomeration of five Bheemili villages with a population of 19,000 into the GVMC jurisdiction the number of wards has increased to 98.<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Municipal_elections_and_civic_government_officials">Municipal elections and civic government officials</h3></div> <p>The previous Municipal Elections were held in 2007. After a larger gap of 13 years, the elections were scheduled to happen on 23 March 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Economic_Times_106-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Economic_Times-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The results of the latest municipal elections for 145 municipalities and 10 municipal corporations across Andhra Pradesh were held on 30 March and the results were announced on Monday. Of the 92 municipalities in Seemandhra, TDP won 65 municipalities and YSR Congress nineteen. Of the seven municipal corporations, TDP bagged five and YSR Congress two.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Economic_Times_106-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Economic_Times-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The City governance structure of GVMC consists of an elected wing headed by the Mayor an administrative wing headed by the Administrative Commissioner,  4 Additional commissioners, and 8 zonal commissioners. Mayor elections were planned to be carried out in March 2020 but details are yet to be declared.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Economic_Times_106-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Economic_Times-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The present municipal commissioner of the city is G Srijana. The municipal commissioner looks after the administration of the municipal corporation.<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The executive wing has departments for Engineering, Public health, revenue, town planning, horticulture, education, finance, general administration, projects, IT E-governance and Urban Community Development.<sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The organisational structure of the GVMC includes standing committees, ward committees and special committees, The corporation wards committees must be of not less than ten wards, special committees are appointed by the corporation out of their own body, and a standing committee consisting of chairpersons from all wards.<sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Municipal_budget">Municipal budget</h3></div> <p>The GVMC estimated a budget of <span class="nowrap"><span style="white-space: nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Indian_rupee" title="Indian rupee">₹</a></span>4,171 <a href="/wiki/Crore" title="Crore">crore</a></span> (equivalent to <span style="white-space: nowrap">₹</span>49 billion or US$560 million in 2023) for the financial year 2020–21. It shows an increase of <span class="nowrap"><span style="white-space: nowrap">₹</span>337 crore</span> (equivalent to <span style="white-space: nowrap">₹</span>419 crore or US$48 million in 2023) compared to the last budget for 2019–20.<sup id="cite_ref-110" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Revenue Department of GVMC generates its revenue by levying of Property Tax, Vacant Land Tax and it is the collection and dealing with Remunerative Enterprises, Water Charges, etc.<sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Masterplan">Masterplan</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Beach_road_night_view.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Beach_road_night_view.jpg/250px-Beach_road_night_view.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Beach_road_night_view.jpg/330px-Beach_road_night_view.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Beach_road_night_view.jpg/500px-Beach_road_night_view.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="6000" /></a><figcaption>Beach road along the Kailasagiri hill illuminated with Automobile trails at night</figcaption></figure> <p>In 2019, the Planning wing of the <a href="/wiki/Visakhapatnam_Metropolitan_Region_Development_Authority" title="Visakhapatnam Metropolitan Region Development Authority">Visakhapatnam Metropolitan Region Development Authority</a> (VMRDA) started preparing a 'perspective plan 2051' which is a 30-year strategic plan, apart from another 'master plan 2041'. The 'perspective plan' is expected to include provisions for resource conservation, regional growth, economic growth and transportation strategies, coastal zone regulations, disaster management strategies, population forecast and distribution, a broad structure plan, and an implementation plan.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_112-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 'master plan' proposes a growth strategy with transit-oriented development strategies, expansion of satellite towns such as Vizianagaram, Anakapalli, Bheemili, etc., theme-based economic nodes along the proposed metro-rail corridor, bus-based public transport, tourism destination development, a comprehensive rural agenda and resilient city planning.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_112-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Yet another proposal includes a transit corridor connecting Bhogapuram Airport with the existing business centres of the city and the industrial clusters in Atchutapuram under the Visakhapatnam-Chennai Industrial Corridor.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_112-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="District_Administration">District Administration</h3></div> <p>The district area is 11,161 km<sup>2</sup> (4,309 sq mi). The Sub-Division is divided into Mandals. Visakhapatnam District Consists of 43 mandals, each headed by a Tahsildar.<sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It also has one Municipal Corporation and two Municipalities. There are four revenue divisions in the district.<sup id="cite_ref-114" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A Revenue division is headed by Revenue Divisional Officer in the rank  of Sub–Collector in the cadre of <a href="/wiki/Indian_Administrative_Service" title="Indian Administrative Service">I.A.S.</a> or a Deputy Collector. He is the Sub Divisional Magistrate having jurisdiction over his division.<sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Law_and_order">Law and order</h3></div> <p>Law and order in the city are dealt by <a href="/wiki/Visakhapatnam_City_Police" title="Visakhapatnam City Police">Visakhapatnam City Police</a>, equipped with a Police Commissionerate with the Commissioner of Police as the head and with assisted by three <a href="/wiki/Deputy_Commissioner_of_Police_(India)" class="mw-redirect" title="Deputy Commissioner of Police (India)">deputy commissioners</a> for different zones.<sup id="cite_ref-116" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The current City Police Commissioner is Mr. Manish Kumar Sinha.<sup id="cite_ref-117" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-117"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Visakhapatnam_Metropolitan_Region_Development_Authority" title="Visakhapatnam Metropolitan Region Development Authority">Visakhapatnam Metropolitan Region Development Authority</a> (VMRDA) is an urban planning agency that covers the GVMC and its suburbs covering, two corporations, one municipality, one nagar panchayat and 895 villages from two districts of Visakhapatnam and Vizianagaram.<sup id="cite_ref-area_118-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-area-118"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-thehinducivic_101-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thehinducivic-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The expanded area of the city, Visakhapatnam Metropolitan Region extends to 4,873 km<sup>2</sup> (1,881 sq mi) with a population of <a href="/wiki/Indian_numbering_system" title="Indian numbering system">50,18,000</a> (Western: 5,018,000) and is under the administration of <a href="/wiki/Visakhapatnam_Metropolitan_Region_Development_Authority" title="Visakhapatnam Metropolitan Region Development Authority">Visakhapatnam Metropolitan Region Development Authority</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-119" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-119"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-120" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-120"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-metro_121-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-metro-121"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The District & Sessions Court is located in Vishakapatnam City and it also includes family courts. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Legislative_Assembly_and_Parliament">Legislative Assembly and Parliament</h3></div> <p>The city has eight <a href="/wiki/Andhra_Pradesh_Legislative_Assembly" title="Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly">legislative assembly</a> constituencies within its limits. In the legislative elections <a href="/wiki/Ganta_Srinivasa_Rao" title="Ganta Srinivasa Rao">Ganta Srinivasa Rao</a> was elected to the assembly from <a href="/wiki/Bheemili_Assembly_constituency" title="Bheemili Assembly constituency">Bheemili Assembly constituency</a>. <a href="/wiki/Vamsi_Krishna_Srinivas" title="Vamsi Krishna Srinivas">Vamsi Krishna Srinivas</a> was elected from <a href="/wiki/Visakhapatnam_South_Assembly_constituency" title="Visakhapatnam South Assembly constituency">Visakhapatnam South</a>. For <a href="/wiki/Visakhapatnam_East_Assembly_constituency" title="Visakhapatnam East Assembly constituency">Visakhapatnam East</a>, Velagapudi Ramakrishna Babu was elected. For <a href="/wiki/Visakhapatnam_North_Assembly_constituency" title="Visakhapatnam North Assembly constituency">Visakhapatnam North</a> <a href="/wiki/Penmetsa_Vishnu_Kumar_Raju" title="Penmetsa Vishnu Kumar Raju">Penmetsa Vishnu Kumar Raju</a> and for <a href="/wiki/Visakhapatnam_West_Assembly_constituency" title="Visakhapatnam West Assembly constituency">Visakhapatnam West</a> <a href="/wiki/P._G._V._R._Naidu" title="P. G. V. R. Naidu">P. G. V. R. Naidu</a> was elected. For the <a href="/wiki/Gajuwaka_Assembly_constituency" title="Gajuwaka Assembly constituency">Gajuwaka Assembly</a>, <a href="/wiki/Palla_Srinivasa_Rao" title="Palla Srinivasa Rao">Palla Srinivasa Rao</a> and for the <a href="/wiki/Pendurthi_Assembly_constituency" title="Pendurthi Assembly constituency">Pendurthi Assembly</a> <a href="/wiki/Panchakarla_Ramesh_Babu" title="Panchakarla Ramesh Babu">Panchakarla Ramesh Babu</a> were elected. For the <a href="/wiki/Anakapalle_Assembly_constituency" title="Anakapalle Assembly constituency">Anakapalle constituency</a> <a href="/wiki/Konathala_Ramakrishna" title="Konathala Ramakrishna">Konathala Ramakrishna</a> was elected.<sup id="cite_ref-122" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-122"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Out of the eight constituencies Anakapalli and Pendurthi fall under the <a href="/wiki/Anakapalle_Lok_Sabha_constituency" title="Anakapalle Lok Sabha constituency">Anakapalli Lok Sabha Constituency</a>, whose <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament,_Lok_Sabha" title="Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha">Member of Parliament</a> is <a href="/wiki/C._M._Ramesh" title="C. M. Ramesh">C. M. Ramesh</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-123" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-123"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The current <a href="/wiki/Lok_Sabha" title="Lok Sabha">Lok Sabha</a> Member of Parliament <a href="/wiki/Visakhapatnam_Lok_Sabha_constituency" title="Visakhapatnam Lok Sabha constituency">Vishakhapatnam</a> is <a href="/wiki/Mathukumilli_Bharat" title="Mathukumilli Bharat">Mathukumilli Bharat</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-124" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-124"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Civic_utilities">Civic utilities</h2></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Andhra_Pradesh_Eastern_Power_Distribution_Company_Limited" class="mw-redirect" title="Andhra Pradesh Eastern Power Distribution Company Limited">Andhra Pradesh Eastern Power Distribution Company Limited</a> (APEPDCL) supplies power to the city of Visakhapatnam.<sup id="cite_ref-125" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-125"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The fire services in the city is carried out by the state fire department, the Andhra Pradesh State Disaster Response and Fire Department, Eastern region (AP Fire).<sup id="cite_ref-126" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-126"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The city water supply is essentially stored in the three service reservoirs – Town Service Reservoir, Dwarakanagar; High-Level Service Reservoir, T.B. Road, Uplands and Circuit House Reservoir, <a href="/wiki/Waltair_Uplands" title="Waltair Uplands">Waltair Uplands</a>. The city is divided into 14 blocks according to contours and each block is served by separate reservoirs. 35 reservoirs are serving the different segments of the system. Domestic water supply is mainly through public taps and house service connections.<sup id="cite_ref-127" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-127"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There are about 2072 bore wells as groundwater sources. As per a report from 2015, "GVMC relies mostly on surface water for its raw water supply and serves 54.9 per cent of the city through household-level piped connections. There is a supply gap of almost 66 million litres per day (MLD)<sup id="cite_ref-128" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-128"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As of 2019<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visakhapatnam&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, only 50 per cent of the city has access to underground drainage. This is after the city grew over the last decade and <a href="/wiki/Bheemunipatnam" title="Bheemunipatnam">Bheemili</a> and <a href="/wiki/Anakapalli" title="Anakapalli">Anakapalli</a> among other peripheral villages came under the GVMC's jurisdiction. The GVMC has taken up a project to extend the underground drainage network with a budget of <span class="nowrap"><span style="white-space: nowrap">₹</span>10 crore</span> (equivalent to <span style="white-space: nowrap">₹</span>12 crore or US$1.4 million in 2023). The new project will provide underground drainage access to an estimated 8,000 households. The network will be built under the command area of pumping stations at <a href="/wiki/Venkatapuram,_Prakasam_district" title="Venkatapuram, Prakasam district">Venkata Puram</a> and Vimannagar and its vicinity.<sup id="cite_ref-Nov_13_129-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nov_13-129"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the year 2015, the municipal corporation generated 920 tons of waste per day. Waste generated from all the wards has been disposed of at the dumpsite in <a href="/wiki/Kapuluppada" title="Kapuluppada">Kapuluppada</a> since 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-130" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-130"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Economy_of_Visakhapatnam" title="Economy of Visakhapatnam">Economy of Visakhapatnam</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vizag_Steel.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Vizag_Steel.jpg/250px-Vizag_Steel.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Vizag_Steel.jpg/330px-Vizag_Steel.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Vizag_Steel.jpg/500px-Vizag_Steel.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4276" data-file-height="2846" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Visakhapatnam_Steel_Plant" class="mw-redirect" title="Visakhapatnam Steel Plant">Vizag steel plant</a> entrance</figcaption></figure> <p>Visakhapatnam is one of the 100 fastest growing cities in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-131" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-131"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The usual <a href="/wiki/Seafood" title="Seafood">seafood</a> exporting capacity of the harbour is 115,000 <a href="/wiki/Tonne" title="Tonne">tonnes</a> (127,000 short tons)<sup id="cite_ref-132" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-132"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and during the <a href="/wiki/Financial_Year" class="mw-redirect" title="Financial Year">FY</a> 2015, it topped seafood exports in terms of value among other ports.<sup id="cite_ref-133" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-133"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Visakhapatnam_Port" title="Visakhapatnam Port">Visakhapatnam Port</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gangavaram_Port" title="Gangavaram Port">Gangavaram Port</a> are the two ports of the city and the former one topped charts which handled 60,000,000 tonnes (66,000,000 short tons) of cargo during the financial year 2016–17.<sup id="cite_ref-134" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-134"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Hindustan_Shipyard" title="Hindustan Shipyard">Hindustan Shipyard</a> undertakes building and repairing of <a href="/wiki/Naval_fleet" title="Naval fleet">Naval fleet</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-135" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-135"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>133<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Information_technology">Information technology</h3></div> <p>The growth in the IT sector in recent times has boosted the local economy.<sup id="cite_ref-136" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-136"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>134<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2016–17, the <a href="/wiki/Information_technology" title="Information technology">IT industry</a> in Visakhapatnam witnessed an increase in its turnover which recorded as <span class="nowrap"><span style="white-space: nowrap">₹</span>54 billion</span> (US$620 million) with more than 350 firms,<sup id="cite_ref-137" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-137"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>135<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in contrast to 2013–14 figures of <span class="nowrap"><span style="white-space: nowrap">₹</span>1,450 crore</span> (equivalent to <span style="white-space: nowrap">₹</span>25 billion or US$280 million in 2023).<sup id="cite_ref-138" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-138"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>136<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Sunrise Startup Village</i>, an incubation centre<sup id="cite_ref-139" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-139"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>137<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Fintech_Valley_Vizag" title="Fintech Valley Vizag">Fintech Valley Vizag</a> were established to promote the city as a global <a href="/wiki/Financial_technology" class="mw-redirect" title="Financial technology">fintech</a> capital in the Andhra Pradesh state.<sup id="cite_ref-140" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-140"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>138<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Millennium_IT_Towers" title="Millennium IT Towers">Millennium IT Towers</a> 1 was inaugurated by the then Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh <a href="/wiki/N._Chandrababu_Naidu" title="N. Chandrababu Naidu">N. Chandrababu Naidu</a> on 15 February 2019 and <a href="/wiki/Millennium_IT_Towers" title="Millennium IT Towers">Millennium IT Towers</a> 2 is in pipeline to promote fintech investments in the city.<sup id="cite_ref-141" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-141"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>139<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There are many national and multi-national IT/ITes and fintech firms such as <a href="/wiki/IBM" title="IBM">IBM</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wipro" title="Wipro">Wipro</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tech_Mahindra" title="Tech Mahindra">Tech Mahindra</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kenexa" title="Kenexa">Kenexa</a>, Infotech, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Miracle_Software_Systems&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Miracle Software Systems (page does not exist)">Miracle Software Systems</a>, <a href="/wiki/Conduent" title="Conduent">Conduent</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cyient" title="Cyient">Cyient</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paytm" title="Paytm">Paytm</a>, <a href="/wiki/Concentrix" title="Concentrix">Concentrix</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sutherland" title="Sutherland">Sutherland</a>, <a href="/wiki/HSBC" title="HSBC">HSBC</a>, etc. Some more investments are in line, like <a href="/wiki/Google_X" class="mw-redirect" title="Google X">Google X</a>, Lalith Ahuja's <a href="/wiki/ANSR_Consulting" class="mw-redirect" title="ANSR Consulting">ANSR Consulting</a>, <a href="/wiki/Franklin_Templeton_Investments" title="Franklin Templeton Investments">Franklin Templeton</a>, Innova Solutions, etc. at <a href="/wiki/Fintech_Valley_Vizag" title="Fintech Valley Vizag">Fintech Valley</a> in the city.<sup id="cite_ref-142" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-142"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>140<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-143" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-143"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>141<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <i>Brandix India Apparel City</i> is the largest textile park in the country and holds the record for employing more than 15,000 women employees at a single location.<sup id="cite_ref-144" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-144"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>142<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_Industries">Other Industries</h3></div> <p>The Jawaharlal Nehru Pharma City (JNPC) developed at Parawada near Visakhapatnam in 2,400 acres (9.7 km<sup>2</sup>) has major <a href="/wiki/Pharmaceutical_industry" title="Pharmaceutical industry">pharma</a> companies like, <a href="/wiki/Hospira" title="Hospira">Hospira</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mylan" title="Mylan">Mylan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eisai_(company)" title="Eisai (company)">Eisai</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dr._Reddy%27s_Laboratories" title="Dr. Reddy's Laboratories">Reddy's Lab</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aurobindo_Pharma" title="Aurobindo Pharma">Aurobindo Pharma</a>, <a href="/wiki/Torrent_Pharmaceuticals" title="Torrent Pharmaceuticals">Torrent pharma</a>, Divis Lab, etc.<sup id="cite_ref-145" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-145"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>143<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-146" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-146"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>144<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-147" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-147"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Andhra_Pradesh_Medtech_Zone_Limited" class="mw-redirect" title="Andhra Pradesh Medtech Zone Limited">Andhra Pradesh Medtech Zone Limited</a>, is the India's first Ultra Modern Medical Equipment Manufacturing & Testing Facility, open to Manufacturers & Innovators.<sup id="cite_ref-148" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-148"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>146<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The prevalence of <a href="/wiki/Ferroalloy" title="Ferroalloy">ferroalloy</a> plants is due to the availability of manganese ore near Visakhapatnam. Aluminium refineries such as AnRak Aluminium and Jindal Aluminium are developing because of the bauxite reserves around the city.<sup id="cite_ref-149" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-149"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>147<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Visakhapatnam is a part of the <i>Petroleum, Chemical and Petrochemical Investment Region (PCPIR)</i>, proposed between Visakhapatnam and Kakinada. The PCPIR is expected to generate 1.2 million jobs and require a projected investment of <span class="nowrap"><span style="white-space: nowrap">₹</span>400 billion</span> (US$4.6 billion).<sup id="cite_ref-150" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-150"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>148<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/NTPC_Limited" title="NTPC Limited">NTPC</a>'s 2,000MW <a href="/wiki/Simhadri_Super_Thermal_Power_Station" title="Simhadri Super Thermal Power Station">Simhadri Super Thermal Power Station</a> is undergoing an expansion with the construction of an addition supercritical unit that will generate between 660 and 1,000 MW.<sup id="cite_ref-151" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-151"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>149<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hindujas has begun construction of a 1,070 MW thermal power plant in Visakhapatnam district at a cost of US$1.25 billion.<sup id="cite_ref-152" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-152"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>150<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cityscape">Cityscape</h2></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:INS_Kursura_at_Night_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/INS_Kursura_at_Night_01.jpg/220px-INS_Kursura_at_Night_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/INS_Kursura_at_Night_01.jpg/330px-INS_Kursura_at_Night_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/INS_Kursura_at_Night_01.jpg/440px-INS_Kursura_at_Night_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5184" data-file-height="3456" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/INS_Kursura" class="mw-redirect" title="INS Kursura">INS Kursura</a> (S20)</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Beautiful_view_of_Visakhapatnam_and_Bay_of_Bengal_from_Tenneti_park_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Beautiful_view_of_Visakhapatnam_and_Bay_of_Bengal_from_Tenneti_park_1.jpg/250px-Beautiful_view_of_Visakhapatnam_and_Bay_of_Bengal_from_Tenneti_park_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Beautiful_view_of_Visakhapatnam_and_Bay_of_Bengal_from_Tenneti_park_1.jpg/330px-Beautiful_view_of_Visakhapatnam_and_Bay_of_Bengal_from_Tenneti_park_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Beautiful_view_of_Visakhapatnam_and_Bay_of_Bengal_from_Tenneti_park_1.jpg/500px-Beautiful_view_of_Visakhapatnam_and_Bay_of_Bengal_from_Tenneti_park_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4032" data-file-height="3024" /></a><figcaption>City scape from beach road near Tenneti park</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Neighbourhoods">Neighbourhoods</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_neighbourhoods_in_Visakhapatnam" title="List of neighbourhoods in Visakhapatnam">List of neighbourhoods in Visakhapatnam</a></div> <p>Over the years, Visakhapatnam has turned from a fishing village into a commercial city with busy streets. Most notable areas of the city include urban areas like <a href="/wiki/Allipuram" title="Allipuram">Allipuram</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arilova" title="Arilova">Arilova</a>, <a href="/wiki/Asilmetta" title="Asilmetta">Asilmetta</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dwaraka_Nagar" title="Dwaraka Nagar">Dwaraka Nagar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gajuwaka" title="Gajuwaka">Gajuwaka</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gopalapatnam" title="Gopalapatnam">Gopalapatnam</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jagadamba_Centre" title="Jagadamba Centre">Jagadamba Centre</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lawsons_Bay_Colony" title="Lawsons Bay Colony">Lawsons Bay Colony</a>, Pendurthi, <a href="/wiki/Maddilapalem" title="Maddilapalem">Maddilapalem</a>, <a href="/wiki/Madhurawada" title="Madhurawada">Madhurawada</a>, <a href="/wiki/MVP_Colony" title="MVP Colony">MVP Colony</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rushikonda" title="Rushikonda">Rushikonda</a>, <a href="/wiki/Seethammadhara" title="Seethammadhara">Seethammadhara</a>, <a href="/wiki/Siripuram,_Visakhapatnam" title="Siripuram, Visakhapatnam">Siripuram</a> and semi-rural suburbs such as <a href="/wiki/Anakapalle" class="mw-redirect" title="Anakapalle">Anakapalle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bheemunipatnam" title="Bheemunipatnam">Bheemunipatnam</a>, <a href="/wiki/Duvvada" title="Duvvada">Duvvada</a>, <a href="/wiki/Parawada" title="Parawada">Parawada</a>, Kommadi and <a href="/wiki/Thagarapuvalasa" class="mw-redirect" title="Thagarapuvalasa">Thagarapuvalasa</a> . </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Landmarks">Landmarks</h3></div> <p>Visakhapatnam is one of the main tourism destinations in the state of Andhra Pradesh. The city is known for its beaches, caves and the Eastern Ghats as well as wildlife sanctuaries. About 30% of the city is covered with greenery.<sup id="cite_ref-153" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-153"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Major landmarks in the city include <a href="/wiki/Dolphin%27s_Nose" title="Dolphin's Nose">Dolphin's Nose</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lighthouse" title="Lighthouse">lighthouse</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kailasagiri" title="Kailasagiri">Kailasagiri</a>, <a href="/wiki/Beach_Road,_Visakhapatnam" title="Beach Road, Visakhapatnam">Beach Road</a>, <a href="/wiki/NTR_VMRDA_Park" class="mw-redirect" title="NTR VMRDA Park">VMRDA Park</a>, <a href="/wiki/Visakha_Museum" title="Visakha Museum">Visakha Museum</a> and Matsyadarsini (an aquarium). The <a href="/wiki/INS_Kursura_(S20)" title="INS Kursura (S20)">INS Kursura Submarine Museum</a> and Anti-submarine warfare (ASW) aircraft <a href="/wiki/TU_142_Aircraft_Museum" title="TU 142 Aircraft Museum">TU 142 Aircraft Museum</a> opposite to each other is the only one of its kind in the world,<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="The material near this tag failed verification of its source citation(s). (April 2021)">failed verification</span></a></i>]</sup> conceptualising the hunted and hunter of the wars.<sup id="cite_ref-154" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-154"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>152<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Indira_Gandhi_Zoological_Park" title="Indira Gandhi Zoological Park">Indira Gandhi Zoological Park</a> in the city has variety of wildlife species. <a href="/wiki/Erra_Matti_Dibbalu" title="Erra Matti Dibbalu">Erra Matti Dibbalu</a> (<a href="/wiki/Dune" title="Dune">Red sand dunes</a>) are situated between Visakhapatnam and <a href="/wiki/Bheemunipatnam" title="Bheemunipatnam">Bheemunipatnam</a> are one of the <a href="/wiki/Geoheritage" title="Geoheritage">geo-heritage</a> sites in the country. This tourist spot is now protected and preserved as a heritage site.<sup id="cite_ref-155" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-155"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>153<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> D Ramanaidu Film Studio is one of the film shooting destinations in the city.<sup id="cite_ref-156" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-156"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>154<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Telugu_Samskruthika_Niketanam" title="Telugu Samskruthika Niketanam">Telugu Samskruthika Niketanam</a> on atop Kailasagiri was developed by World Telugu Federation and Visakhapatnam Urban Development Authority,<sup id="cite_ref-157" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-157"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>155<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Adding one more feather to its cap, Visakhapatnam is home to India's tallest musical fountain opened in the Vuda City Central Park. Oscillating vertically at 360 degrees, the fountain dances to the tune of digital music in different colours.<sup id="cite_ref-158" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-158"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>156<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-159" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-159"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>157<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Beaches along the coastline of the Bay of Bengal include <a href="/wiki/RK_Beach" title="RK Beach">RK Beach</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rushikonda_Beach" title="Rushikonda Beach">Rushikonda Beach</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Mangamaripeta" title="Mangamaripeta">Mangamaripeta</a> Beach. Others are <a href="/wiki/Yarada_Beach" title="Yarada Beach">Yarada</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bheemili_Beach" title="Bheemili Beach">Bheemili</a>, Lawson's Bay, Tenneti, <a href="/wiki/Sagar_Nagar" title="Sagar Nagar">Sagar Nagar</a>, Thotlakonda and Gangavaram beaches.<sup id="cite_ref-160" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-160"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>158<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Borra_Caves" title="Borra Caves">Borra Caves</a> are caves discovered by British geologist <a href="/wiki/William_King_(geologist)" title="William King (geologist)">William King</a> in 1807.<sup id="cite_ref-city_of_destiny_2_161-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-city_of_destiny_2-161"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>159<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Tyda</i> (an Eco-tourism project), <a href="/wiki/Kambalakonda_Wildlife_Sanctuary" title="Kambalakonda Wildlife Sanctuary">Kambalakonda Wildlife Sanctuary</a> under <a href="/wiki/Andhra_Pradesh_Forest_Department" title="Andhra Pradesh Forest Department">Andhra Pradesh Forest Department</a> are wildlife conservation sites near the city.<sup id="cite_ref-aptdc_162-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-aptdc-162"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>160<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Culture">Culture</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Culture_of_Visakhapatnam" title="Culture of Visakhapatnam">Culture of Visakhapatnam</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:A_day_in_the_life_of_a_rural_03.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/A_day_in_the_life_of_a_rural_03.jpg/220px-A_day_in_the_life_of_a_rural_03.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/A_day_in_the_life_of_a_rural_03.jpg/330px-A_day_in_the_life_of_a_rural_03.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/A_day_in_the_life_of_a_rural_03.jpg/440px-A_day_in_the_life_of_a_rural_03.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3872" data-file-height="2592" /></a><figcaption>A villager with a decorated bull during Pongal festival</figcaption></figure> <p>The city embraces rich religious diversity, with Hinduism being the majority religion, alongside Islam, Christianity, and Buddhism. Telugu is the predominantly spoken language, reflecting the city's cosmopolitan culture with a significant presence of Odia, Hindi, Tamil, and Malayalam speakers. Visakhapatnam offers a blend of South Indian and Western cuisines, with popular dishes like Moori Mixture and bamboo chicken of <a href="/wiki/Araku_Valley" title="Araku Valley">Araku Valley</a>. The city celebrates various festivals including Makar Sankranti, Ugadi, Vinayaka Chavithi, Diwali, and Dasara. Cricket is the most favoured sport, with facilities like the Dr. Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA–VDCA Cricket Stadium. Additionally, the city is home to attractions like the Telugu Samskruthika Niketanam Museum, Submarine Museum, TUV, and Harrier aircraft museums. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Poets">Poets</h3></div> <p>Some of the notable poets from the city include <a href="/wiki/Sri_Sri_(writer)" title="Sri Sri (writer)">Sri Sri</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gollapudi_Maruti_Rao" title="Gollapudi Maruti Rao">Gollapudi Maruti Rao</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sirivennela_Seetharama_Sastry" title="Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry">Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Religious_sites">Religious sites</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Simhachalam-temple-2_big.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Simhachalam-temple-2_big.jpg/250px-Simhachalam-temple-2_big.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="145" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Simhachalam-temple-2_big.jpg/330px-Simhachalam-temple-2_big.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Simhachalam-temple-2_big.jpg/500px-Simhachalam-temple-2_big.jpg 2x" data-file-width="770" data-file-height="508" /></a><figcaption>Simhachalam Temple</figcaption></figure> <p>Some of the religious sites are also of great importance like <i><a href="/wiki/Varaha_Lakshmi_Narasimha_temple,_Simhachalam" title="Varaha Lakshmi Narasimha temple, Simhachalam">Simhachalam</a></i> temple of Lord <a href="/wiki/Narasimha" title="Narasimha">Narasimha</a> 16 km (9.9 mi) north of the city,<sup id="cite_ref-163" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-163"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>161<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-164" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-164"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>162<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Kanaka_Maha_Lakshmi_Temple" title="Kanaka Maha Lakshmi Temple">Sri Kanaka Maha Lakshmi Temple</a>. Archaeological excavations of Buddhist shrines and sites, including Thotlakonda, Bavikonda, Pavuralakonda and Panchadarla, revealed Buddhist dominance in this area.<sup id="cite_ref-165" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-165"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>163<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Transport">Transport</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Transport_in_Visakhapatnam" title="Transport in Visakhapatnam">Transport in Visakhapatnam</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Visakhapatnam_Highway_Service.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Visakhapatnam_Highway_Service.jpg/220px-Visakhapatnam_Highway_Service.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Visakhapatnam_Highway_Service.jpg/330px-Visakhapatnam_Highway_Service.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Visakhapatnam_Highway_Service.jpg/440px-Visakhapatnam_Highway_Service.jpg 2x" data-file-width="960" data-file-height="720" /></a><figcaption>Visakhapatnam Metro Express Highway Service at Kurmannapalem</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Visakhapatnam_railway_station.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Visakhapatnam_railway_station.jpg/250px-Visakhapatnam_railway_station.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="151" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Visakhapatnam_railway_station.jpg/330px-Visakhapatnam_railway_station.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Visakhapatnam_railway_station.jpg/500px-Visakhapatnam_railway_station.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3439" data-file-height="2368" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Visakhapatnam_Junction_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Visakhapatnam Junction railway station">Visakhapatnam Junction railway station</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The city commuters prefer city buses and <a href="/wiki/Auto_rickshaw" title="Auto rickshaw">auto rickshaw</a> as the primary mode of transport, followed by two-wheelers and cars.<sup id="cite_ref-transport_166-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-transport-166"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>164<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Road and rail are preferred for long-distance commuting and are supported by <a href="/wiki/Dwaraka_bus_station" title="Dwaraka bus station">Dwaraka bus station</a> and <a href="/wiki/Visakhapatnam_Junction_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Visakhapatnam Junction railway station">Visakhapatnam Junction railway station</a> respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-167" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-167"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>165<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-indiatimes1_168-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-indiatimes1-168"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>166<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It also has sea and air travel infrastructure such as, <a href="/wiki/Visakhapatnam_Port" title="Visakhapatnam Port">Visakhapatnam Port</a><sup id="cite_ref-169" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-169"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>167<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Visakhapatnam_Airport" title="Visakhapatnam Airport">Visakhapatnam Airport</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-170" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-170"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>168<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Andhra_Pradesh_State_Road_Transport_Corporation" title="Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation">APSRTC</a> operates city, district, and inter-state bus services from Dwaraka bus station.<sup id="cite_ref-171" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-171"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>169<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Over 600 city buses operate over 150 routes, in addition to <a href="/wiki/Visakhapatnam_Bus_Rapid_Transit_System" title="Visakhapatnam Bus Rapid Transit System">Bus Rapid Transit System</a> in two corridors of Pendurthi and Simhachalam.<sup id="cite_ref-transport_166-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-transport-166"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>164<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 21">: 21 </span></sup> A planned <i>Integrated Bus Terminal Complex</i> would be built at Maddilapalem.<sup id="cite_ref-172" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-172"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>170<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Apart from buses, there are about 25,000 auto rickshaws plying on the city roads which provide <a href="/wiki/Intermediate_public_transport" title="Intermediate public transport">intermediate public transport</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-transport_166-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-transport-166"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>164<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 22">: 22 </span></sup> </p><p>Visakhapatnam is the headquarters of <a href="/wiki/South_Coast_Railway_zone" title="South Coast Railway zone">South Coast Railway zone</a> of Indian railways. <a href="/wiki/Visakhapatnam_railway_station" title="Visakhapatnam railway station">Visakhapatnam railway station</a> is as an <i>A1</i> station<sup id="cite_ref-173" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-173"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>171<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with the highest gross revenue in the <a href="/wiki/Waltair_railway_division" class="mw-redirect" title="Waltair railway division">Waltair railway division</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-174" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-174"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>172<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It serves an average of 20,000–25,000 passengers daily and may rise to 40,000 during festivals.<sup id="cite_ref-indiatimes1_168-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-indiatimes1-168"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>166<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It has the country's largest diesel locomotive shed with a capacity of 206.<sup id="cite_ref-175" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-175"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>173<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Visakhapatnam Metro is a planned metro rail project.<sup id="cite_ref-indiatimes_176-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-indiatimes-176"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>174<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vizag_airport_terminal_full_view.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Vizag_airport_terminal_full_view.jpg/250px-Vizag_airport_terminal_full_view.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="101" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Vizag_airport_terminal_full_view.jpg/330px-Vizag_airport_terminal_full_view.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Vizag_airport_terminal_full_view.jpg/500px-Vizag_airport_terminal_full_view.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1920" data-file-height="880" /></a><figcaption>Visakhapatnam Airport Terminal</figcaption></figure> <p>As of 2013<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visakhapatnam&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, the percentage of transport mode shares in the city are, 18% buses, 9% autos, 15% two-wheelers, 2% cars and 55% non-motorised transport (bicycles and pedestrians).<sup id="cite_ref-transport_166-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-transport-166"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>164<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 23">: 23 </span></sup> The total road network accounts for a total length of 2,007.10 km (1,247.15 mi).<sup id="cite_ref-177" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-177"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>175<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/National_Highway_16_(India)" title="National Highway 16 (India)">NH16</a>, a major highway and a part of the <a href="/wiki/Golden_Quadrilateral" title="Golden Quadrilateral">Golden Quadrilateral</a> system bypasses the city. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Visakhapatnam_Airport" title="Visakhapatnam Airport">Visakhapatnam Airport</a> had served a total of 2,815,205 passengers in 2018, an increase of 16.8% from the previous year. It handled a total of 23,264 aircraft during that year. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Visakhapatnam_Port" title="Visakhapatnam Port">Visakhapatnam Port</a> is one of 13 major <a href="/wiki/List_of_ports_in_India" title="List of ports in India">ports in India</a> and the only major port of Andhra Pradesh. It is India's second-largest port by volume of cargo handled. It is located on the east coast of India and is located midway between the <a href="/wiki/Chennai_Port" title="Chennai Port">Chennai</a> and <a href="/wiki/Port_of_Kolkata" title="Port of Kolkata">Kolkata Ports</a>. Cruise shipping is operational between Visakhapatnam and <a href="/wiki/Andaman_and_Nicobar_Islands" title="Andaman and Nicobar Islands">Andaman and Nicobar islands</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-178" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-178"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>176<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-179" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-179"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>177<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_educational_institutions_in_Visakhapatnam" title="List of educational institutions in Visakhapatnam">List of educational institutions in Visakhapatnam</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:St_Aloysius_Anglo_Indian_High_School_(SAS)_established_in_1847_in_Visakhapatnam,_Andhra_Pradesh.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/St_Aloysius_Anglo_Indian_High_School_%28SAS%29_established_in_1847_in_Visakhapatnam%2C_Andhra_Pradesh.jpg/220px-St_Aloysius_Anglo_Indian_High_School_%28SAS%29_established_in_1847_in_Visakhapatnam%2C_Andhra_Pradesh.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/St_Aloysius_Anglo_Indian_High_School_%28SAS%29_established_in_1847_in_Visakhapatnam%2C_Andhra_Pradesh.jpg/330px-St_Aloysius_Anglo_Indian_High_School_%28SAS%29_established_in_1847_in_Visakhapatnam%2C_Andhra_Pradesh.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/St_Aloysius_Anglo_Indian_High_School_%28SAS%29_established_in_1847_in_Visakhapatnam%2C_Andhra_Pradesh.jpg/440px-St_Aloysius_Anglo_Indian_High_School_%28SAS%29_established_in_1847_in_Visakhapatnam%2C_Andhra_Pradesh.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="532" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/St_Aloysius%27_Anglo-Indian_High_School" title="St Aloysius' Anglo-Indian High School">St Aloysius' Anglo-Indian High School</a> (SAS) established in 1847 in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh</figcaption></figure> <p>Primary and secondary school education is imparted by government, aided and private schools, under the <i>School Education Department</i> of the state.<sup id="cite_ref-180" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-180"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>178<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-181" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-181"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>179<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As per the school information report for the academic year 2016–17, urban Visakhapatnam had <a href="/wiki/Indian_numbering_system" title="Indian numbering system">1,44,268</a> (Western: 144,268) students<sup id="cite_ref-182" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-182"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>180<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> enrolled in 434 schools.<sup id="cite_ref-183" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-183"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>181<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Central_Board_of_Secondary_Education" title="Central Board of Secondary Education">Central Board of Secondary Education</a>, <a href="/wiki/Secondary_School_Certificate" title="Secondary School Certificate">Secondary School Certificate</a> or the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Certificate_of_Secondary_Education" title="Indian Certificate of Secondary Education">Indian Certificate of Secondary Education</a> are the different types of syllabus followed by different schools. The medium of instruction followed by schools are English and Telugu.<sup id="cite_ref-184" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-184"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>182<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <i>St. Aloysius Anglo Indian Boys High School </i> is the oldest school in the city to have established in the year 1847.<sup id="cite_ref-185" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-185"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>183<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Visakhapatnam District Central Library is supported by the government and is located at Dwaraka Nagar.<sup id="cite_ref-186" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-186"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>184<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-187" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-187"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>185<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There are tens of junior colleges under Government, Andhra Pradesh Social Welfare Residential and private undertakings.<sup id="cite_ref-colleges_188-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-colleges-188"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>186<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Andhra_University" title="Andhra University">Andhra University</a> is the only autonomous college approved under <i>Universities Grant Commission</i> scheme.<sup id="cite_ref-189" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-189"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>187<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Mrs._A._V._N._College" title="Mrs. A. V. N. College">Mrs. A. V. N. College</a></i> is one of the oldest educational institution in the city.<sup id="cite_ref-city_of_destiny_2_161-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-city_of_destiny_2-161"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>159<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 35">: 35 </span></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Gandhi_Institute_of_Technology_and_Management" title="Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management">GITAM University</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Gayatri_Vidya_Parishad_College_of_Engineering" title="Gayatri Vidya Parishad College of Engineering">Gayatri Vidya Parishad College of Engineering</a> are other technical education institutions in the city. Visakhapatnam is also home to <a href="/wiki/Damodaram_Sanjivayya_National_Law_University" title="Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University">Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University</a> (DSNLU), which is the <a href="/wiki/National_Law_Universities" title="National Law Universities">National Law University</a> for the state of Andhra Pradesh. DSNLU takes entrance through <a href="/wiki/Common_Law_Admission_Test" title="Common Law Admission Test">Common Law Admission Test</a> and ranks 15th by order of establishment among the 17 National Law Universities. The city is due to get India's first packaging park<sup id="cite_ref-190" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-190"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>188<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with an Indian Institute of Packaging, IIP<sup id="cite_ref-191" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-191"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>189<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and BITS Pilani & Birla International School under the aegis of Sarala Birla Academy.<sup id="cite_ref-192" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-192"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>190<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Indian_Maritime_University" title="Indian Maritime University">Indian Maritime University</a> (IMU) was established as a central university by the government of India by an act of Parliament (the Indian Maritime University Act 2008). IMU is poised to play a role in the development of human resources for the maritime sector. The city also has the <a href="/wiki/National_Institute_of_Oceanography,_India" title="National Institute of Oceanography, India">National Institute of Oceanography</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Indian_Institutes_of_Management" title="Indian Institutes of Management">Indian Institute of Management</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-193" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-193"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>191<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Indian_Institute_of_Petroleum_and_Energy" title="Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy">Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy</a><sup id="cite_ref-194" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-194"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>192<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> are the other institutions of national importance. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Defence_and_research">Defence and research</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Naval_base">Naval base</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:INS_Vikrant_arrives_at_Visakapatanam_for_Milan_2024.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="INS Vikrant in Vizag Port" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/INS_Vikrant_arrives_at_Visakapatanam_for_Milan_2024.jpg/220px-INS_Vikrant_arrives_at_Visakapatanam_for_Milan_2024.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/INS_Vikrant_arrives_at_Visakapatanam_for_Milan_2024.jpg/330px-INS_Vikrant_arrives_at_Visakapatanam_for_Milan_2024.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/INS_Vikrant_arrives_at_Visakapatanam_for_Milan_2024.jpg/440px-INS_Vikrant_arrives_at_Visakapatanam_for_Milan_2024.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1065" /></a><figcaption>INS Vikrant makes a grand debut at the scenic port of Visakhapatnam for MILAN 2024</figcaption></figure> <p>Visakhapatnam is the headquarters of the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Naval_Command" title="Eastern Naval Command">Eastern Naval Command</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Naval_Science_and_Technological_Laboratory" title="Naval Science and Technological Laboratory">Naval Science and Technological Laboratory</a> (a <a href="/wiki/Defence_Research_and_Development_Organisation" title="Defence Research and Development Organisation">DRDO</a> Lab), a Chief Quality Assurance Establishment (CQAE), an EFS office, a Naval Dockyard (established in 1949) and Naval Bases including <a href="/wiki/INS_Virbahu" title="INS Virbahu">INS Virbahu</a>, <a href="/wiki/INS_Karna" class="mw-redirect" title="INS Karna">INS Karna</a>, <a href="/wiki/INS_Kalinga" title="INS Kalinga">INS Kalinga</a>, INS Samudrika, <a href="/wiki/INS_Satavahana" title="INS Satavahana">INS Satavahana</a>, and <a href="/wiki/INS_Dega" title="INS Dega">INS Dega</a>. A new base at <a href="/wiki/INS_Varsha" title="INS Varsha">INS Rambilli</a> is being built on 5,000 acres (20 km<sup>2</sup>) with an investment of <span class="nowrap"><span style="white-space: nowrap">₹</span>15 billion</span> (US$172 million), as the first dedicated nuclear submarine base in India.<sup id="cite_ref-toi26m_195-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-toi26m-195"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>193<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-thu17s_196-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thu17s-196"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>194<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> India's first nuclear submarine <a href="/wiki/INS_Arihant" title="INS Arihant">INS Arihant</a> was launched in the Naval Dockyard, and <a href="/wiki/Bharat_Dynamics_Limited" title="Bharat Dynamics Limited">Bharat Dynamics</a> has begun manufacturing torpedoes.<sup id="cite_ref-197" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-197"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>195<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The city also has presence of the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Coast_Guard" title="Indian Coast Guard">Indian Coast Guard</a> including ships and offices. Multiple naval training establishments, such as the Navy ShipWright School,<sup id="cite_ref-198" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-198"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>196<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> are also situated here. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Research_organisations">Research organisations</h3></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Bhabha_Atomic_Research_Centre" title="Bhabha Atomic Research Centre">Bhabha Atomic Research Centre</a> (BARC) has its second research facility in the country (after Trombay) in Atchutapuram mandal in the district.<sup id="cite_ref-199" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-199"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>197<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-200" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-200"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>198<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There are also offices of the <a href="/wiki/National_Institute_of_Oceanography,_India" title="National Institute of Oceanography, India">National Institute of Oceanography</a> and the <a href="/wiki/India_Meteorological_Department" title="India Meteorological Department">India Meteorological Department</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sports">Sports</h2></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vizagacavdca.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="major international stadium for cricket" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Vizagacavdca.jpg/220px-Vizagacavdca.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Vizagacavdca.jpg/330px-Vizagacavdca.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Vizagacavdca.jpg/440px-Vizagacavdca.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption>Dr. Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy International Cricket Stadium at <a href="/wiki/Pothinamallayya_Palem" title="Pothinamallayya Palem">PM Palem</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ENC_Cricket_Team_which_won_the_VDCA_Institutional_League_Cricket_Championship_2015-16.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/ENC_Cricket_Team_which_won_the_VDCA_Institutional_League_Cricket_Championship_2015-16.jpg/220px-ENC_Cricket_Team_which_won_the_VDCA_Institutional_League_Cricket_Championship_2015-16.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="130" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/ENC_Cricket_Team_which_won_the_VDCA_Institutional_League_Cricket_Championship_2015-16.jpg/330px-ENC_Cricket_Team_which_won_the_VDCA_Institutional_League_Cricket_Championship_2015-16.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/ENC_Cricket_Team_which_won_the_VDCA_Institutional_League_Cricket_Championship_2015-16.jpg/440px-ENC_Cricket_Team_which_won_the_VDCA_Institutional_League_Cricket_Championship_2015-16.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="593" /></a><figcaption>ENC Cricket Team which won the VDCA Institutional League Cricket Championship 2015–16</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Cricket" title="Cricket">Cricket</a> is the most popular sport, followed by <a href="/wiki/Tennis" title="Tennis">tennis</a> and <a href="/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">football</a>. Visakhapatnam is home to several local cricket teams participating in district and zonal matches. Gully cricket or <a href="/wiki/Backyard_cricket" title="Backyard cricket">backyard cricket</a> (a form of cricket played in streets or parks) is a popular sport among local youth. Visakhapatnam co-hosted the 32nd <a href="/wiki/National_Games_of_India" title="National Games of India">National Games</a> alongside <a href="/wiki/Hyderabad" title="Hyderabad">Hyderabad</a> in 2002. The city has seven cricket stadiums, which are used for <a href="/wiki/Ranji_Trophy" title="Ranji Trophy">Ranji Trophy</a> matches; two of these stadiums have been used for <a href="/wiki/One_Day_International" title="One Day International">one day international</a> (ODI) matches.<sup id="cite_ref-201" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-201"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>199<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Indira_Priyadarshini_Stadium" title="Indira Priyadarshini Stadium">Indira Priyadarshini Stadium</a>, also known as the Municipal Corporation Stadium, hosted the first ODI match on 9 December 1988 and the last ODI on 3 April 2001. The stadium was discontinued in favour of the new <a href="/wiki/Dr._Y._S._Rajasekhara_Reddy_ACA%E2%80%93VDCA_Cricket_Stadium" class="mw-redirect" title="Dr. Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA–VDCA Cricket Stadium">Dr. Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy International Cricket Stadium</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pothinamallayya_Palem" title="Pothinamallayya Palem">PM Palem</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-202" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-202"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>200<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Dr. Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy International Cricket Stadium is the home of <a href="/wiki/Andhra_Cricket_Association" title="Andhra Cricket Association">Andhra Cricket Association</a>. It regularly hosts <a href="/wiki/Ranji_Trophy" title="Ranji Trophy">Ranji Trophy</a>, One Day Internationals, and <a href="/wiki/Test_cricket" title="Test cricket">Test Internationals</a>. The stadium is the home ground of <a href="/wiki/Andhra_cricket_team" title="Andhra cricket team">Andhra cricket team</a>. The stadium also hosted <a href="/wiki/Indian_Premier_League" title="Indian Premier League">IPL</a> matches as a neutral venue. It hosted its first test match against England beginning on 17 November 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-203" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-203"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>201<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-204" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-204"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>202<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Port Trust Golden Jubilee Stadium is the second largest stadium in Visakhapatnam, which has hosted Under-19 Youth Internationals. It also hosted the <a href="/wiki/2014_Pro_Kabaddi_League_season" class="mw-redirect" title="2014 Pro Kabaddi League season">2014 Pro Kabaddi League season</a> as the home ground for the <a href="/wiki/Telugu_Titans" title="Telugu Titans">Telugu Titans</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-205" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-205"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>203<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><a href="/wiki/Swarna_Bharathi_Indoor_Stadium" title="Swarna Bharathi Indoor Stadium">Swarna Bharathi Indoor Stadium</a>, built by the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation, is used for various indoor sports,<sup id="cite_ref-206" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-206"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>204<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the GVMC Aqua Sports Complex, an aquatic centre for swimming and diving, is near the beach road.<sup id="cite_ref-207" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-207"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>205<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Surfing" title="Surfing">Surfing</a> activities are common at the Rushikonda beach.<sup id="cite_ref-208" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-208"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>206<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Scuba_diving" title="Scuba diving">Scuba diving</a> at <a href="/wiki/Chintapalle,_Visakhapatnam_district" class="mw-redirect" title="Chintapalle, Visakhapatnam district">Chintapalli</a> in the scenic city has been attracting tourists from all over.<sup id="cite_ref-209" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-209"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>207<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Media">Media</h2></div> <p>The Telugu dailies publishers in the city are <a href="/wiki/Eenadu" title="Eenadu">Eenadu</a>, <a href="/wiki/ABN_Andhra_Jyothi" title="ABN Andhra Jyothi">Andhra Jyothy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sakshi_(media_group)" title="Sakshi (media group)">Sakshi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Andhra_Bhoomi" title="Andhra Bhoomi">Andhra Bhoomi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Andhra_Prabha" title="Andhra Prabha">Andhra Prabha</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vaartha" title="Vaartha">Vaartha</a>, <a href="/wiki/Suryaa_(newspaper)" title="Suryaa (newspaper)">Suryaa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Prajasakti" title="Prajasakti">Prajasakti</a> and <a href="/wiki/Visalaandhra" title="Visalaandhra">Visalaandhra</a>. Apart from the local language, there are also English papers such as <a href="/wiki/The_Hindu" title="The Hindu">The Hindu</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Times_of_India" title="The Times of India">The Times of India</a>, <a href="/wiki/Deccan_Chronicle" title="Deccan Chronicle">Deccan Chronicle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Business_Line" title="Business Line">The Hindu Business Line</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_New_Indian_Express" title="The New Indian Express">The New Indian Express</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_Hans_India" title="The Hans India">The Hans India</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="FM_stations">FM stations</h3></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Radio_City_(Indian_radio_station)" title="Radio City (Indian radio station)">Radio City</a> – 91.1 – Telugu/Hindi</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Big_92.7_FM" class="mw-redirect" title="Big 92.7 FM">Big 92.7 FM</a> – 92.7 – Telugu/Hindi</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_FM_93.5" class="mw-redirect" title="Red FM 93.5">Red FM</a> – 93.5 – Telugu/Hindi</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radio_Mirchi" title="Radio Mirchi">Radio Mirchi</a> – 98.3 – Telugu</li> <li>AIR Primary – 101.6 – Telugu<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2025)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AIR_FM_Rainbow" title="AIR FM Rainbow">AIR FM Rainbow</a> – 102.0 – Telugu</li> <li>Visakha FM – 105.6 – Telugu</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gyan_Vani" title="Gyan Vani">Gyan Vani</a> – 106.4 – Telugu/English/Hindi<sup id="cite_ref-210" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-210"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>208<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="DRM">DRM</h3></div> <ul><li>Air Vizag - 918 kHz, 2 stations<sup id="cite_ref-211" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-211"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>209<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_people">Notable people</h2></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sir_CV_Raman.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Sir_CV_Raman.JPG/250px-Sir_CV_Raman.JPG" decoding="async" width="150" height="225" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Sir_CV_Raman.JPG/330px-Sir_CV_Raman.JPG 2x" data-file-width="992" data-file-height="1488" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/C._V._Raman" title="C. V. Raman">Sir C. V. Raman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Laureate" class="mw-redirect" title="Nobel Laureate">Nobel Laureate</a> (1930) and <a href="/wiki/Physicist" title="Physicist">Physicist</a> known for his discovery of <a href="/wiki/Raman_scattering" title="Raman scattering">Raman Effect</a>.</figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sarvepalli_Radhakrishnan_1967_stamp_of_India.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Sarvepalli_Radhakrishnan_1967_stamp_of_India.jpg/250px-Sarvepalli_Radhakrishnan_1967_stamp_of_India.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="202" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Sarvepalli_Radhakrishnan_1967_stamp_of_India.jpg/330px-Sarvepalli_Radhakrishnan_1967_stamp_of_India.jpg 2x" data-file-width="705" data-file-height="949" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Sarvepalli_Radhakrishnan" title="Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan">Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan</a>, the <a href="/wiki/List_of_vice_presidents_of_India" title="List of vice presidents of India">first vice-president</a> of India on a postal stamp of 1967.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alluri_Sitarama_Raju" title="Alluri Sitarama Raju">Alluri Sitarama Raju</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gurajada_Apparao" title="Gurajada Apparao">Gurajada Apparao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Concordia_Merrel" title="Concordia Merrel">Concordia Merrel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Hay_Mackenzie_Elliot" title="Edward Hay Mackenzie Elliot">Edward Hay Mackenzie Elliot</a><sup id="cite_ref-Bio_212-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bio-212"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>210<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-213" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-213"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>211<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._V._Raman" title="C. V. Raman">Sir C. V. Raman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gam_Malludora" title="Gam Malludora">Gam Malludora</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cattamanchi_Ramalinga_Reddy" title="Cattamanchi Ramalinga Reddy">Cattamanchi Ramalinga Reddy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarvepalli_Radhakrishnan" title="Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan">Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tenneti_Viswanadham" title="Tenneti Viswanadham">Tenneti Viswanadham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Sri_(writer)" title="Sri Sri (writer)">Sri Sri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aarudhra" class="mw-redirect" title="Aarudhra">Aarudhra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sirivennela_Seetharama_Sastry" title="Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry">Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beesetti_Venkata_Satyavathi" title="Beesetti Venkata Satyavathi">Beesetti venkata satyavathi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peela_Govinda_Satyanarayana" title="Peela Govinda Satyanarayana">Peela Govinda Satyanarayana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malla_Vijaya_Prasad" title="Malla Vijaya Prasad">Malla Vijaya prasad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malla_Venkata_Manikyalu" class="mw-redirect" title="Malla Venkata Manikyalu">Malla venkata manikyalu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramana_Gogula" title="Ramana Gogula">Ramana Gogula</a><sup id="cite_ref-214" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-214"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>212<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._T._Srinivasa_Iyengar" title="P. T. Srinivasa Iyengar">P. T. Srinivasa Iyengar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kotcherlakota_Rangadhama_Rao" title="Kotcherlakota Rangadhama Rao">Kotcherlakota Rangadhama Rao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nookala_Chinna_Satyanarayana" title="Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana">Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Kantha_Krishnamacharyulu" title="Sri Kantha Krishnamacharyulu">Sri Kantha Krishnamacharyulu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Devika_Rani" title="Devika Rani">Devika Rani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/L._V._Revanth" title="L. V. Revanth">L. V. Revanth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Venugopal_Rao_(cricketer)" title="Venugopal Rao (cricketer)">Venugopal Rao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gode_Venkata_Juggarow" title="Gode Venkata Juggarow">Gode Venkata Juggarow</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_in_India_by_population" title="List of cities in India by population">List of cities in India by population</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_municipal_corporations_in_India" title="List of municipal corporations in India">List of municipal corporations in India</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_tourist_attractions_and_events_in_Visakhapatnam" title="List of tourist attractions and events in Visakhapatnam">List of tourist attractions and events in Visakhapatnam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_neighbourhoods_in_Visakhapatnam" title="List of neighbourhoods in Visakhapatnam">List of neighbourhoods in Visakhapatnam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_urban_agglomerations_in_Andhra_Pradesh" title="List of urban agglomerations in Andhra Pradesh">List of urban agglomerations in Andhra Pradesh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Largest_Indian_cities_by_GDP" class="mw-redirect" title="Largest Indian cities by GDP">Largest Indian cities by GDP</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output 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href="/wiki/Andhra_Pradesh_Eastern_Power_Distribution_Company_Limited" class="mw-redirect" title="Andhra Pradesh Eastern Power Distribution Company Limited">Andhra Pradesh Eastern Power Distribution Company Limited</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Visakhapatnam_Municipal_Corporation" title="Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation">Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Visakhapatnam_City_Police" title="Visakhapatnam City Police">Visakhapatnam City Police</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Visakhapatnam_district" title="Visakhapatnam district">Visakhapatnam District Collectorate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Visakhapatnam_Metropolitan_Region_Development_Authority" title="Visakhapatnam Metropolitan Region Development Authority">Visakhapatnam Metropolitan Region Development Authority</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Geography <br />and wildlife</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bay_of_Bengal" title="Bay of Bengal">Bay of Bengal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dolphin%27s_Nose" title="Dolphin's Nose">Dolphin's Nose</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Ghats" title="Eastern Ghats">Eastern Ghats</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erra_Matti_Dibbalu" title="Erra Matti Dibbalu">Erra Matti Dibbalu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gosthani_River" title="Gosthani River">Gosthani River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kambalakonda_Wildlife_Sanctuary" title="Kambalakonda Wildlife Sanctuary">Kambalakonda Wildlife Sanctuary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kanithi_Balancing_Reservoir" title="Kanithi Balancing Reservoir">Kanithi Balancing Reservoir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kondakarla_Ava" title="Kondakarla Ava">Kondakarla Ava</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meghadri_Gedda_Reservoir" title="Meghadri Gedda Reservoir">Meghadri Gedda Reservoir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mudasarlova_Reservoir" title="Mudasarlova Reservoir">Mudasarlova Reservoir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raiwada_Reservoir" title="Raiwada Reservoir">Raiwada Reservoir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simhachalam_Hill_Range" title="Simhachalam Hill Range">Simhachalam Hill Range</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tatipudi_Reservoir" title="Tatipudi Reservoir">Tatipudi Reservoir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yarada_Hills" title="Yarada Hills">Yarada Hills</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Economy_of_Visakhapatnam" title="Economy of Visakhapatnam">Economy</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Andhra_Pradesh_Medtech_Zone" title="Andhra Pradesh Medtech Zone">Andhra Pradesh Medtech Zone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andhra_Pradesh_Special_Economic_Zone" title="Andhra Pradesh Special Economic Zone">Andhra Pradesh SEZ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coromandel_International" title="Coromandel International">Coromandel Fertilizers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dredging_Corporation_of_India" title="Dredging Corporation of India">Dredging Corporation of India</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Essar_Steel" title="Essar Steel">Essar Pellet Plant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fintech_Valley_Vizag" title="Fintech Valley Vizag">Fintech Valley Vizag</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gangavaram_Port" title="Gangavaram Port">Gangavaram Port</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hindustan_Shipyard" title="Hindustan Shipyard">Hindustan Shipyard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru_Pharma_City" title="Jawaharlal Nehru Pharma City">Jawaharlal Nehru Pharma City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Millennium_IT_Towers" title="Millennium IT Towers">Millennium IT Towers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naval_Dockyard_(Visakhapatnam)" title="Naval Dockyard (Visakhapatnam)">Naval Dockyard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simhadri_Super_Thermal_Power_Station" title="Simhadri Super Thermal Power Station">NTPC Simhadri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Vijaya_Visakha_Milk_Producers_Company_Ltd" title="Sri Vijaya Visakha Milk Producers Company Ltd">Visakha Dairy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Visakhapatnam%E2%80%93Chennai_Industrial_Corridor" title="Visakhapatnam–Chennai Industrial Corridor">Visakhapatnam–Chennai Industrial Corridor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Visakhapatnam_Port" title="Visakhapatnam Port">Visakhapatnam Port</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Visakhapatnam_Refinery" title="Visakhapatnam Refinery">Visakhapatnam Refinery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Visakhapatnam_Special_Economic_Zone" title="Visakhapatnam Special Economic Zone">Visakhapatnam SEZ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Visakhapatnam_Steel_Plant" class="mw-redirect" title="Visakhapatnam Steel Plant">Visakhapatnam Steel Plant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vizag_back-to-back_HVDC_converter_station" title="Vizag back-to-back HVDC converter station">Vizag back-to-back HVDC converter station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vizag_Thermal_Power_Station" title="Vizag Thermal Power Station">Vizag Thermal Power Station</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Transport_in_Visakhapatnam" title="Transport in Visakhapatnam">Transport</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Air</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bhogapuram_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Bhogapuram Airport">Bhogapuram Airport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Visakhapatnam_Airport" title="Visakhapatnam Airport">Visakhapatnam Airport</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Rail</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Duvvada_railway_station" title="Duvvada railway station">Duvvada railway station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duvvada%E2%80%93Vijayawada_section" title="Duvvada–Vijayawada section">Duvvada–Vijayawada section</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kothavalasa%E2%80%93Kirandul_line" title="Kothavalasa–Kirandul line">KK line</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simhachalam_railway_station" title="Simhachalam railway station">Simhachalam railway station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Coast_Railway_zone" title="South Coast Railway zone">South Coast Railway zone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Visakhapatnam_railway_station" title="Visakhapatnam railway station">Visakhapatnam railway station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waltair_railway_division" class="mw-redirect" title="Waltair railway division">Waltair railway division</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Road</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Andhra_Pradesh_State_Road_Transport_Corporation" title="Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation">APSRTC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dwaraka_bus_station" title="Dwaraka bus station">Dwaraka bus station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maddilapalem_bus_station" title="Maddilapalem bus station">Maddilapalem bus station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MVP_Colony_bus_station" class="mw-redirect" title="MVP Colony bus station">MVP Colony bus station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NAD_X_Road" class="mw-redirect" title="NAD X Road">NAD X Road</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Highway_16_(India)" title="National Highway 16 (India)">NH 16</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nowroji_Road" title="Nowroji Road">Nowroji Road</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raipur%E2%80%93Visakhapatnam_Expressway" title="Raipur–Visakhapatnam Expressway">Raipur–Visakhapatnam Expressway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rama_Talkies_Road" title="Rama Talkies Road">Rama Talkies Road</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sankara_Matam_Road" title="Sankara Matam Road">Sankara Matam Road</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simhachalam_bus_station" title="Simhachalam bus station">Simhachalam bus station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_Highway_38_(Andhra_Pradesh)" title="State Highway 38 (Andhra Pradesh)">SH 38</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_Highway_39_(Andhra_Pradesh)" title="State Highway 39 (Andhra Pradesh)">SH 39</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telugu_Thalli_Flyover" title="Telugu Thalli Flyover">Telugu Thalli Flyover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Town_Kotha_Road" title="Town Kotha Road">Town Kotha Road</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Visakhapatnam_Bus_Rapid_Transit_System" title="Visakhapatnam Bus Rapid Transit System">Visakhapatnam BRTS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/VIP_Road,_Visakhapatnam" title="VIP Road, Visakhapatnam">VIP Road</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waltair_Main_Road" title="Waltair Main Road">Waltair Main Road</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Water</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Visakhapatnam_Port" title="Visakhapatnam Port">Visakhapatnam Port</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Culture_of_Visakhapatnam" title="Culture of Visakhapatnam">Culture</a> and <br />recreation</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Language</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Telugu_language" title="Telugu language">Telugu</a> (<a href="/wiki/North_Andhra#Language_and_Demographies" title="North Andhra">Uttarandhra dialect</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Heritage</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bavikonda" title="Bavikonda">Bavikonda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bojjannakonda" title="Bojjannakonda">Bojjannakonda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawa_Mahal,_Visakhapatnam" title="Hawa Mahal, Visakhapatnam">Hawa Mahal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pavurallakonda" title="Pavurallakonda">Pavurallakonda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thotlakonda" title="Thotlakonda">Thotlakonda</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Beaches</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Beach_Road,_Visakhapatnam" title="Beach Road, Visakhapatnam">Beach Road</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bheemili_Beach" title="Bheemili Beach">Bheemili Beach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/RK_Beach" title="RK Beach">RK Beach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rushikonda_Beach" title="Rushikonda Beach">Rushikonda Beach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yarada_Beach" title="Yarada Beach">Yarada Beach</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Malls</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/CMR_Central,_Visakhapatnam" title="CMR Central, Visakhapatnam">CMR Central</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/CENTRAL,_Visakhapatnam" title="CENTRAL, Visakhapatnam">Visakhapatnam Central</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Parks and <br />themeparks</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Biodiversity_Park,_Visakhapatnam" title="Biodiversity Park, Visakhapatnam">Biodiversity Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/City_Central_Park" class="mw-redirect" title="City Central Park">City Central Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indira_Gandhi_Zoological_Park" title="Indira Gandhi Zoological Park">Indira Gandhi Zoological Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mudasarlova_Park" title="Mudasarlova Park">Mudasarlova Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sivaji_Park" title="Sivaji Park">Sivaji Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kailasagiri" title="Kailasagiri">Kailasagiri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shilparamam_Jathara" title="Shilparamam Jathara">Shilparamam Jathara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tenneti_Park" title="Tenneti Park">Tenneti Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/VMRDA_Health_Arena" title="VMRDA Health Arena">VMRDA Health Arena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/VUDA_Park" title="VUDA Park">VUDA Park</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Museums and <br />memorials</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/INS_Kursura_(S20)" title="INS Kursura (S20)">INS Kursura Submarine Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queen_Victoria_Pavilion" title="Queen Victoria Pavilion">Queen Victoria Pavilion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telugu_Samskruthika_Niketanam" title="Telugu Samskruthika Niketanam">Telugu Samskruthika Niketanam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/TU_142_Aircraft_Museum" title="TU 142 Aircraft Museum">TU 142 Aircraft Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victory_at_Sea_Memorial" title="Victory at Sea Memorial">Victory at Sea Memorial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Visakha_Museum" title="Visakha Museum">Visakha Museum</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Events</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hot_air_balloon_festival" class="mw-redirect" title="Hot air balloon festival">Araku balloon festival</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Fleet_Review_2016" title="International Fleet Review 2016">International Fleet Review</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Navy_Day_(India)" title="Navy Day (India)">Navy Day</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Visakha_Utsav" title="Visakha Utsav">Visakha Utsav</a></li> <li>Vizag Navy Marathon</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Venues</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/AU_Convention_Center" title="AU Convention Center">AU Convention Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Children%27s_Arena" title="Children's Arena">Children's Arena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gurajada_Kalakshetram,_Visakhapatnam" title="Gurajada Kalakshetram, Visakhapatnam">Gurajada Kalakshetram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kala_Bharati" title="Kala Bharati">Kala Bharati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rajiv_Smruthi_Bhavan" title="Rajiv Smruthi Bhavan">Rajiv Smruthi Bhavan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Town_Hall_Visakhapatnam" title="Town Hall Visakhapatnam">Town Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turner%27s_Choultry" title="Turner's Choultry">Turner's Choultry</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Sports</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Teams</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Telugu_Titans" title="Telugu Titans">Telugu Titans</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vizag_Warriors&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Vizag Warriors (page does not exist)">Vizag Warriors</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Stadiums</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/ACA%E2%80%93VDCA_Cricket_Stadium" title="ACA–VDCA Cricket Stadium">ACA–VDCA Cricket Stadium</a></li> <li>East Point Golf Club</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hindustan_Zinc_Limited_Ground" title="Hindustan Zinc Limited Ground">Hindustan Zinc Limited Ground</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indira_Priyadarshini_Stadium" title="Indira Priyadarshini Stadium">Indira Priyadarshini Stadium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Port_Trust_Diamond_Jubilee_Stadium" title="Port Trust Diamond Jubilee Stadium">Port Trust Diamond Jubilee Stadium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Coast_Railway_Stadium" title="South Coast Railway Stadium">South Coast Railway Stadium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swarna_Bharathi_Indoor_Stadium" title="Swarna Bharathi Indoor Stadium">Swarna Bharathi Indoor Stadium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukku_Stadium" title="Ukku Stadium">Ukku Stadium</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Politics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Andhra_Pradesh_Legislative_Assembly" title="Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly">Andhra Pradesh Assembly</a> constituencies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anakapalle_(Assembly_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Anakapalle (Assembly constituency)">Anakapalle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bheemili_(Assembly_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bheemili (Assembly constituency)">Bheemili</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gajuwaka_(Assembly_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gajuwaka (Assembly constituency)">Gajuwaka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pendurthi_(Assembly_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pendurthi (Assembly constituency)">Pendurthi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Visakhapatnam_East_(Assembly_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Visakhapatnam East (Assembly constituency)">Visakhapatnam East</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Visakhapatnam_North_(Assembly_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Visakhapatnam North (Assembly constituency)">Visakhapatnam North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Visakhapatnam_South_(Assembly_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Visakhapatnam South (Assembly constituency)">Visakhapatnam South</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Visakhapatnam_West_(Assembly_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Visakhapatnam West (Assembly constituency)">Visakhapatnam West</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Lok_Sabha" title="Lok Sabha">Lok Sabha</a> constituencies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Visakhapatnam_(Lok_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Visakhapatnam (Lok Sabha constituency)">Visakhapatnam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anakapalli_(Lok_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Anakapalli (Lok Sabha constituency)">Anakapalli</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Educational_institutions154" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/List_of_educational_institutions_in_Visakhapatnam" title="List of educational institutions in Visakhapatnam">Educational institutions</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Universities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Andhra_University" title="Andhra University">Andhra University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Damodaram_Sanjivayya_National_Law_University" title="Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University">Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gandhi_Institute_of_Technology_and_Management" title="Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management">Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indian_Maritime_University" title="Indian Maritime University">Indian Maritime University</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Engineering</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Andhra_University_College_of_Engineering" title="Andhra University College of Engineering">Andhra University College of Engineering</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anil_Neerukonda_Institute_of_Technology_and_Sciences" title="Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology and Sciences">Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology and Sciences</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chaitanya_Engineering_College" title="Chaitanya Engineering College">Chaitanya Engineering College</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gayatri_Vidya_Parishad_College_of_Engineering" title="Gayatri Vidya Parishad College of Engineering">Gayatri Vidya Parishad College of Engineering</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indian_Institute_of_Petroleum_and_Energy" title="Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy">Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raghu_Engineering_College" title="Raghu Engineering College">Raghu Engineering College</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pydah_College_of_Engineering_and_Technology,_Visakhapatnam" title="Pydah College of Engineering and Technology, Visakhapatnam">Pydah College of Engineering and Technology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vignan%27s_Institute_of_Information_Technology" title="Vignan's Institute of Information Technology">Vignan's Institute of Information Technology</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Medicine</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Andhra_Medical_College" title="Andhra Medical College">Andhra Medical College</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gandhi_Institute_of_Technology_and_Management#GIMSR_Visakhapatnam_campus" title="Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management">GITAM Institute of Medical Sciences and Research</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Arts and <br />sciences</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dr._V._S._Krishna_Govt._Degree_%26_P.G_College" title="Dr. V. S. Krishna Govt. Degree & P.G College">Dr. V. S. Krishna Govt. Degree & P.G College</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dr._Lankapalli_Bullayya_College" title="Dr. Lankapalli Bullayya College">Dr. Lankapalli Bullayya College</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mrs._A._V._N._College" title="Mrs. A. V. N. College">Mrs. A. V. N. College</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St.Joseph%27s_College_For_Women" class="mw-redirect" title="St.Joseph's College For Women">St.Joseph's College For Women</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Visakha_Govt._Degree_College_For_Women" title="Visakha Govt. Degree College For Women">Visakha Govt. Degree College For Women</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Business</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Indian_Institute_of_Management_Visakhapatnam" title="Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam">IIM Visakhapatnam</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Law</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dr._B._R._Ambedkar_College_of_Law" title="Dr. B. R. Ambedkar College of Law">Dr. B. R. Ambedkar College of Law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/GITAM_School_of_Law" title="GITAM School of Law">GITAM School of Law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Visakha_Law_College" title="Visakha Law College">Visakha Law College</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Others</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kalam_Institute_of_Health_Technology" title="Kalam Institute of Health Technology">Kalam Institute of Health Technology</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Schools</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Delhi_Public_School_Society_schools#DPS,_Visakhapatnam" title="List of Delhi Public School Society schools">DPS Visakhapatnam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oakridge_International_School" title="Oakridge International School">Oakridge International School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sri_TVS_Rao_Srikrishna_Vidya_Mandir" title="Sri TVS Rao Srikrishna Vidya Mandir">Srikrishna Vidya Mandir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Aloysius%27_Anglo-Indian_High_School" title="St Aloysius' Anglo-Indian High School">St Aloysius' Anglo-Indian High School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timpany_School" title="Timpany School">Timpany School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Visakha_Valley_School" title="Visakha Valley School">Visakha Valley School</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Hospitals25" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Hospitals</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Government</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Government_ENT_Hospital,_Visakhapatnam" title="Government ENT Hospital, Visakhapatnam">Government ENT Hospital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Government_Hospital_For_Mental_Care" title="Government Hospital For Mental Care">Government Hospital For Mental Care</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Government_Regional_Eye_Hospital" class="mw-redirect" title="Government Regional Eye Hospital">Government Regional Eye Hospital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Government_TB_and_Chest_Hospital,_Visakhapatnam" title="Government TB and Chest Hospital, Visakhapatnam">Government TB and Chest Hospital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Government_Victoria_Hospital" title="Government Victoria Hospital">Government Victoria Hospital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homi_Bhabha_Cancer_Hospital_and_Research_Centre,_Visakhapatnam" title="Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Visakhapatnam">Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital & Research Centre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King_George_Hospital,_Visakhapatnam" title="King George Hospital, Visakhapatnam">King George Hospital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rani_Chandramani_Devi_Government_Hospital" title="Rani Chandramani Devi Government Hospital">Rani Chandramani Devi Government Hospital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Visakha_Institute_of_Medical_Sciences" title="Visakha Institute of Medical Sciences">Visakha Institute of Medical Sciences</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Others</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_Hospitals,_Visakhapatnam" title="Apollo Hospitals, Visakhapatnam">Apollo Hospitals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/L._V._Prasad_Eye_Institute" title="L. V. Prasad Eye Institute">L. V. Prasad Eye Institute</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SevenHills_Hospital" title="SevenHills Hospital">SevenHills Hospital</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Places_of_worship30" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Places of worship</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Temples</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Devipuram" title="Devipuram">Devipuram Temple</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ISKCON_Temple,_Visakhapatnam" class="mw-redirect" title="ISKCON Temple, Visakhapatnam">ISKCON Temple</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kali_Temple,_Visakhapatnam" title="Kali Temple, Visakhapatnam">Kali Temple</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nookambika_Temple" title="Nookambika Temple">Nookambika Temple</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Varaha_Lakshmi_Narasimha_temple,_Simhachalam" title="Varaha Lakshmi Narasimha temple, Simhachalam">Simhachalam Temple</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kanaka_Maha_Lakshmi_Temple" title="Kanaka Maha Lakshmi Temple">Sri Kanaka Maha Lakshmi Temple</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Sampath_Vinayagar_Temple" title="Sri Sampath Vinayagar Temple">Sri Sampath Vinayagar Temple</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Someswara_Swamy_Temple,_Appikonda" title="Someswara Swamy Temple, Appikonda">Sri Someswara Swamy Temple</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Others</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Quirk_Memorial_Baptist_Church" title="Quirk Memorial Baptist Church">Quirk Memorial Baptist Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St._Stephen%27s_Orthodox_Church,_Visakhapatnam" title="St. Stephen's Orthodox Church, Visakhapatnam">St. Stephen's Orthodox Church</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other topics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:People_from_Visakhapatnam" title="Category:People from Visakhapatnam">People from Visakhapatnam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_in_India_by_population" title="List of cities in India by population">List of cities in India by population</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_largest_cities" title="List of largest cities">List of largest cities</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3"><div> <ul><li><b><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Category"><img alt="" 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<ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_neighbourhoods_in_Visakhapatnam" title="List of neighbourhoods in Visakhapatnam">List of neighbourhoods in Visakhapatnam</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abidnagar" title="Abidnagar">Abidnagar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Achutapuram" class="mw-redirect" title="Achutapuram">Achutapuram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adarsh_Nagar" title="Adarsh Nagar">Adarsh Nagar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adavivaram" title="Adavivaram">Adavivaram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aganampudi" title="Aganampudi">Aganampudi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akkayyapalem" title="Akkayyapalem">Akkayyapalem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akkireddypalem" title="Akkireddypalem">Akkireddypalem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Allipuram" title="Allipuram">Allipuram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anakapalle" class="mw-redirect" title="Anakapalle">Anakapalle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anandapuram" title="Anandapuram">Anandapuram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Appikonda" title="Appikonda">Appikonda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arilova" title="Arilova">Arilova</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asilmetta" title="Asilmetta">Asilmetta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balayya_Sastri_Layout" title="Balayya Sastri Layout">Balayya Sastri Layout</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beach_Road,_Visakhapatnam" title="Beach Road, Visakhapatnam">Beach Road, Visakhapatnam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bheemunipatnam" title="Bheemunipatnam">Bheemunipatnam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BHPV" class="mw-redirect" title="BHPV">BHPV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burujupeta" title="Burujupeta">Burujupeta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/CBM_Compound" title="CBM Compound">CBM Compound</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chengal_Rao_Peta" title="Chengal Rao Peta">Chengal Rao Peta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chinagantyada" title="Chinagantyada">Chinagantyada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chinna_Gadhili" title="Chinna Gadhili">Chinna Gadhili</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chinnamushidiwada" title="Chinnamushidiwada">Chinnamushidiwada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chinna_Waltair" title="Chinna Waltair">Chinna Waltair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chintalagraharam" title="Chintalagraharam">Chintalagraharam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daba_Gardens" title="Daba Gardens">Daba Gardens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daspalla_Hills" title="Daspalla Hills">Daspalla Hills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dayalnagar" class="mw-redirect" title="Dayalnagar">Dayalnagar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Desapatrunipalem" title="Desapatrunipalem">Desapatrunipalem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Devada" title="Devada">Devada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dibbapalem" class="mw-redirect" title="Dibbapalem">Dibbapalem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dondaparthi" class="mw-redirect" title="Dondaparthi">Dondaparthi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dosuru" title="Dosuru">Dosuru</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duppituru" title="Duppituru">Duppituru</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duvvada" title="Duvvada">Duvvada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dwaraka_Nagar" title="Dwaraka Nagar">Dwaraka Nagar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gajuwaka" title="Gajuwaka">Gajuwaka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gambhiram" title="Gambhiram">Gambhiram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gandhigram,_Visakhapatnam" title="Gandhigram, Visakhapatnam">Gandhigram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gangavaram_Port" title="Gangavaram Port">Gangavaram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gidijala" title="Gidijala">Gidijala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gnanapuram" title="Gnanapuram">Gnanapuram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gopalapatnam" title="Gopalapatnam">Gopalapatnam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gudilova" title="Gudilova">Gudilova</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hanumanthawaka" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanumanthawaka">Hanumanthawaka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HB_Colony" title="HB Colony">HB Colony</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isukathota" title="Isukathota">Isukathota</a></li> 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