Ongols
Ongole ఒంగోలు |
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State : | Andhra Pradesh | |
District : | Prakasam | |
Location : | 15 ° 30 ′ N , 80 ° 3 ′ E | |
Height : | 10 m | |
Area : | 132.45 km² | |
Residents : | 252,739 (2011) | |
Population density : | 1908 Ew./km² | |
Website : | ongolemunicipalcorporation.org | |
Ongole train station |
Ongole ( Telugu ఒంగోలు ) is a city in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh .
geography
Ongole is the capital of the Prakasam district . It is located 15 km from the coast of the Bay of Bengal . Chennai is 270 km south. Vijayawada , the capital of Andhra Pradesh, is 125 km northeast.
At the 2011 census, the population of Ongole was 252,739.
history
The municipality was founded in 1876 and upgraded to a municipal corporation on January 25, 2012 .
On October 4, 1946, a serious railway accident occurred near Ongole : the express train from Madras to Calcutta (today: Kolkata ) collided with a freight train . 36 people died, 81 were also injured.
traffic
The national highway NH 16 (Chennai – Vijayawada) runs through the city.
Web links
Commons : Ongole - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Ongole Municipal Corporation (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Homepage of the city administration
- ↑ a b Homepage of the city administration
- ^ Peter WB Semmens: Catastrophes on rails. A worldwide documentation. Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71030-3 , p. 118.