[1] Bhongir Fort is one of the isolated monolithic rocks carved by the Western Chalukya ruler Tribhuvanamalla Vikramaditya VI and was thus named after him as Tribhuvanagiri.

Subsequently, it constituted a Municipality in the year 1952, and recently as per the Government orders 3 Gram panchayats namely Raigiri(North East), Pagidipalli(West) & Bommaipally(South) Areas have been merged in Bhongiri Municipality and town having spread over 76.537 km2.

The famous Pilgrim of Lord Yadadri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple is located nearby 13 km.

According to the 2011 census of India, the Total Bhuvanagiri population is 103,538 people living in this Mandal, of which 52,720 are male and 50,818 are female.

Notable persons from the town are Raavi Narayana Reddy, Alimineti Madhava Reddy, Belli Lalitha, Pranay Bhonagiri, Sudhakar Ratnapuram and Pratyusha Rock Climbing School at Bhuvanagiri Fort, Bhuvanagiri is the training center for rock climbing.