Visakhapatnam

Visakhapatnam, popularly known as Vizag, is the largest city in . It is primarily an industrial city, but also attracts tourists due to its unspoilt sandy beaches, well built and maintained parks, Buddhist sites and nearby scenic areas, such as .
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  • Type: City with 2,530,000 residents
  • Description: city in Visakhapatnam district, Andhra Pradesh
  • Also known as: “The City of Destiny”, “Vaisākhapattanam”, “Visak”, “Visakha”, and “Vishakhapatanam”
  • Historically known as: “Vizag” and “Vizagapatnam”

Places of Interest

Highlights include King George Hospital and St Aloysius’ Anglo-Indian High School.

Hospital
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is a public hospital located in Visakhapatnam, , . It is the largest and busiest government hospital in Andhra Pradesh.

School
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St Aloysius' Anglo-Indian High School is a Christian mission school in the city of Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. It was founded in the year 1847, during the East India Company rule in India by the British Indian Army.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Maharanipeta and Daba Gardens.

Town
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is a neighbourhood in the city of Visakhapatnam, India. One of the 46 mandals of Visakhapatnam District, it is under the administration of Visakhapatnam revenue division, and its headquarters is at .

Neighborhood
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is a neighbourhood in Visakhapatnam, , . It is hub for shopping malls, electronic shopping especially, shopping for cell phones, restaurants, educational institutes etc.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood situated on the central part of Visakhapatnam City, . The area, which falls under the local administrative limits of Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation.

Visakhapatnam

Latitude
17.6936° or 17° 41′ 37″ north
Longitude
83.2921° or 83° 17′ 32″ east
Population
2,530,000
Elevation
24 metres (79 feet)
IATA airport code
VTZ
United Nations Location Code
IN VIZ
Open location code
7M95M7VR+CV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 245641840
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1253102
Wiki­data ID
Q200016
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Visakhapatnam” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Visakhapatnam”
  • Arabic: “فشاكاباتنم”
  • Arabic: “فيساخاباتنام”
  • Arabic: “فيشاخاباتنام”
  • Aragonese: “Visakhapatnam”
  • Armenian: “Վիշակհապատնամ”
  • Assamese: “বিশাখাপট্টনম”
  • Asturian: “Visakhapatnam”
  • Balinese: “Visakhapatnam”
  • Basque: “Vaishakhapuram”
  • Basque: “Visakhapatnam”
  • Basque: “Vizag”
  • Belarusian: “Вішакхапатнам”
  • Bengali: “বিশাখাপত্তনম”
  • Bhojpuri: “बिशाखापट्टनम”
  • Bishnupriya: “বিশাখাপত্তম”
  • Breton: “Visakhapatnam”
  • Bulgarian: “Висакхапатнам”
  • Catalan: “Visakhapatnam”
  • Catalan: “Vizagapatam”
  • Cebuano: “Visakhapatnam”
  • Chechen: “Вишакхапатнам”
  • Chinese: “Visakhapatnam”
  • Chinese: “維沙卡帕特南”
  • Chinese: “维沙卡帕特南”
  • Chinese: “维萨卡帕特南”
  • Croatian: “Visakhapatnam”
  • Czech: “Višákhapatnam”
  • Danish: “Visakhapatnam”
  • Dutch: “Visakhapatnam”
  • Dutch: “Visakhapattanamu”
  • Dutch: “Vishakhapatnam”
  • Dutch: “Vizag City”
  • Dutch: “Vizag”
  • Dutch: “Vizagapatam”
  • Dutch: “Waltair”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فيساخاباتنام”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مدينه فيساخاباتنام”
  • Esperanto: “Visakhapatnam”
  • Esperanto: “Viŝakhapatnam”
  • Finnish: “Visakhapatnam”
  • Finnish: “Vishakhapatnam”
  • Finnish: “Waltair”
  • French: “Visakhapatnam”
  • French: “Vishakapatnam”
  • French: “Vishakhapatnam”
  • Georgian: “ვიზაგი”
  • Georgian: “ვიშაქაპატნამი”
  • German: “Visakhapatnam”
  • German: “Vishakhapatnam”
  • Greek: “Βισακχαπατνάμ”
  • Gujarati: “વિઝાગ”
  • Gujarati: “વિશાખાપટનમ”
  • Hausa: “Visakhapatnam”
  • Hebrew: “ויסאקפאטנאם”
  • Hebrew: “וישאכאתפאטנם”
  • Hindi: “विजाग”
  • Hindi: “विशाखपटनम”
  • Hindi: “विशाखापटनम”
  • Hindi: “विशाखापट्टनम”
  • Hindi: “विशाखापट्नम”
  • Hindi: “विशाखापत्तनम”
  • Hungarian: “Visákhapatnam”
  • Indonesian: “Visakhapatnam”
  • Irish: “Visakhapatnam”
  • Italian: “Visakhapatnam”
  • Italian: “Vizagapatam”
  • Japanese: “ヴィシャーカパトナム”
  • Japanese: “ヴィシャカパトナム”
  • Japanese: “ビシャカパトナム”
  • Kannada: “ವಿಶಾಖಪಟ್ಟಣ”
  • Kannada: “ವಿಶಾಖಪಟ್ಟಣಂ”
  • Kannada: “ವಿಶಾಖಪಟ್ನಂ”
  • Kashmiri: “وِشاکا پَٹنَم”
  • Kashmiri: “وِشاکھاپَٹنَم”
  • Kirghiz: “Вишакхапатнaм”
  • Kirghiz: “Вишакхапатнам”
  • Korean: “비샤카파트남”
  • Ladin: “Visakhapatnam”
  • Latvian: “Višākhapatnama”
  • Latvian: “Vizaga”
  • Lithuanian: “Višakapatnamas”
  • Lithuanian: “Visakhapatnamas”
  • Lithuanian: “Višakhapatnamas”
  • Lithuanian: “Vizagapatnamas”
  • Macedonian: “Вишакапатнам”
  • Maithili: “विशाखपट्नम”
  • Malagasy: “Visakhapatnam”
  • Malay: “Visakhapatnam”
  • Malayalam: “Visakhapatnam”
  • Malayalam: “വിശാഖപട്ടണം”
  • Marathi: “विशाखापट्टणम”
  • Marathi: “विशाखापट्टणम्”
  • Marathi: “विशाखापट्टनम”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Visakhapatnam”
  • Mingrelian: “ვიშაქჰაპატნამი”
  • Mongolian: “Вишакхапатнам”
  • Nepali: “विशाखापट्टनम”
  • Nepali: “विशाखापत्तनम”
  • Newari: “विशाखपट्टणम्”
  • Newari: “विशाखपट्नम्”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Visakhapatnam”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vizag”
  • Norwegian: “Visakhapatnam”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Visakhapatnam”
  • Oriya: “ବିଶାଖାପଟନମ”
  • Oriya: “ବିଶାଖାପାଟଣା”
  • Ossetian: “Вишакхапатнам”
  • Pampanga: “Visakhapatnam”
  • Panjabi: “ਵਿਸ਼ਾਖਾਪਟਨਮ”
  • Persian: “وشاکاپاتنم”
  • Persian: “ویساکاپاتنام”
  • Polish: “Visakhapatnam”
  • Polish: “Vizag”
  • Polish: “Wiśakhapatnam”
  • Portuguese: “Visagapatão”
  • Portuguese: “Visakhapatnam”
  • Portuguese: “Vishakapatnam”
  • Portuguese: “Vishakhapatnam”
  • Portuguese: “Vizagapatam”
  • Portuguese: “Vizagapatnam”
  • Pushto: “ويساکاپټنام”
  • Romanian: “Vishakhapatnam”
  • Russian: “Визаг”
  • Russian: “Висахапатнам”
  • Russian: “Вишакхапатнам”
  • Sanskrit: “विशाखपट्टणमण्डलम्”
  • Sanskrit: “विशाखपट्टणम्”
  • Sanskrit: “विशाखपट्नम् मण्डलः”
  • Sanskrit: “विशाखपट्नम्”
  • Sanskrit: “विशाखपत्तनम्”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱤᱥᱟᱠᱷᱟᱯᱟᱴᱱᱟᱢ”
  • Scots: “Visakhapatnam”
  • Serbian: “Visakhapatnam”
  • Serbian: “Vizagapatnam”
  • Serbian: “Визагапатнам”
  • Serbian: “Висакапатнам”
  • Serbian: “विशाखापत्तनम”
  • Silesian: “Visakhapatnam”
  • Sindhi: “وشاکاپٽنم”
  • Sinhala: “විසාකාපට්ටනම්”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ویساکاپاتنام”
  • Spanish: “Visakhapatnam”
  • Spanish: “Visha khapatnam”
  • Spanish: “Visha-khapatnam”
  • Spanish: “Vishakhapatnam”
  • Spanish: “Vishākhapatnam”
  • Spanish: “Vizag”
  • Spanish: “Vizagapatnam”
  • Swahili: “Visakhapatnam”
  • Swedish: “Visakhapatnam”
  • Swedish: “Vishakapatnam”
  • Swedish: “Vishakhapatnam”
  • Swedish: “Vizagapatnam”
  • Tagalog: “Visakhapatnam”
  • Talysh: “Visakhapatnam”
  • Tamil: “விசாகப்பட்டிணம்”
  • Tamil: “விசாகப்பட்டினம்”
  • Telugu: “Waltair”
  • Telugu: “విశాఖ”
  • Telugu: “విశాఖపట్నం”
  • Telugu: “వైజాగ్”
  • Thai: “วิศาขาปัฏฏนัม”
  • Thai: “วิศาขาปัตตนัม”
  • Turkish: “Visakhapatnam”
  • Ukrainian: “Вішакхапатнам”
  • Urdu: “و شاکھا پٹنم”
  • Urdu: “وشاکھ پٹنم”
  • Urdu: “وشاکھاپٹنم”
  • Urdu: “وشاکھپٹنم”
  • Venetian: “Visakhapatnam”
  • Vietnamese: “Visakhapatnam”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Visakhapatnam”
  • Western Panjabi: “وشاکھاپٹنم”
  • Western Panjabi: “ویساکھاپتنام”
  • Wu Chinese: “维沙卡帕特南”
  • Yue Chinese: “維沙卡帕特南”
  • “बिशाखापट्टनम”

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