There are buses and trains as public transportations which approximately takes 90 minutes from Bangalore.

It was called Closepet, after Sir Barry Close (1756–1813) in pre-independence times.

[citation needed] As of 2011[update] India census, Ramanagara had a population of 95,167.

The Closepet granites are a major geological feature of this region and are from the Lower Proterozoic era.

This belt has younger potassic granites and is believed to separate two distinct crustal blocks of Archaean age.