[7]: 15   It is also said that visakhpatnam is taken from ishaqapatnam referring to ishaq mandina auliya a saint whose shrine is located nearby the port.

and the Ganjam district (excluding Chicacole division) of Madras Presidency were transferred to Orissa Province along with portions of the Vizagapatam Hill Tracts Agency and Ganjam Hill Tracts Agency.

[9][10][11] The Chicacole division (i.e., Ichchapuram, Palasa, Tekkali, Pathapatnam and Srikakulam) was merged with Visakhapatnam district.

[19] Although in the past ten years many people from outside AP have migrated to Vizag for a living, so the linguistic statistics have rapidly changed.

In Vizag one can find sign boards of busy markets written in languages namely English, and Hindi respectively.

Wards Formation year Visakhapatnam district occupies an area of approximately 1,048 square kilometres (405 sq mi),[20] comparatively equivalent to United States Atka Island.

[22] The major products contributing to the GVA of the district from agriculture and allied services are, sugarcane, paddy, betel leaves, mango, milk, meat and fisheries.

[24][25] They include 162 government, 2,793 mandal and zilla parishads, 9 residential, 1225 private, 5 model, 34 Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV), 147 municipal and 829 other types of schools.

The stadium had its inaugural ODI match against Pakistan, during which Mahendra Singh Dhoni achieved his first one-day international century, scoring 148 runs, in 2005.