Ongols

Ongole ఒంగోలు
State :	India
State :	Andhra Pradesh
District :	Prakasam
Location :	15 ° 30 ′  N , 80 ° 3 ′  E Coordinates: 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

1. ↑ Homepage of the city administration
2. ↑ ^{a b} Homepage of the city administration
3. ^ Peter WB Semmens: Catastrophes on rails. A worldwide documentation. Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71030-3 , p. 118.