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Neighbourhood in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India

Gopalapatnam

Gopalapatnam is a neighborhood in the city of Visakhapatnam, India.

Gopalapatnam
Gopalapatnam · Shivamsetu (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The place

Gopalapatnam is a neighborhood in the city of Visakhapatnam, India. The neighborhood is considered to be the major residential and commercial area in the district. It is located within the jurisdiction of the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation, which is responsible for the area's civic amenities. It is located on the western fringe of Visakhapatnam. The Visakhapatnam gas leak occurred in the neighborhood on 7 May 2020.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Gopalapatnam

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Simhachalam Temple

    Sri Varaha Lakshmi Narasimha temple, Simhachalam, is a Hindu temple situated on the Simhachalam Hill Range, which is 300 metres above the sea level in the city of Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. It is dedicated to Lord Vishnu, who is worshipped there as Varaha Narasimha.

    3.9 km · Hindu temple in Andhra Pradesh, India · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Gopalapatnam

Airports
Alluri Sitarama Raju (Vizag) (VTZ), 39 km · Vijayawada (VGA), 290 km
Stations
Simhachalam railway station, 400 m
  • Vijayawada → Gopalapatnam
    306 km · quickest by road, 5h 30m · ₹2,290–2,860
  • Bhubaneswar → Gopalapatnam
    393 km · quickest by road, 6h 33m · ₹2,830–3,530
  • Hyderabad → Gopalapatnam
    507 km · quickest by air, 6h 15m · ₹7,450–11,210
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Gopalapatnam

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Gopalapatnam. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundHowever, apart from the bus service, taxis or autorickshaws can also be hired.
  • Go nextIt is definitely not a day trip, but the APTDC facilities can serve as a decent lodging.

From Wikivoyage: Visakhapatnam, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Sagar Island and GangasagarIN

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    668 km
  2. 02
    HampiIN

    8 ways of moving, 18 sources

    768 km
  3. 03
    GokarnaIN

    7 ways of moving, 14 sources

    1,015 km
  4. 04
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    1,059 km
  5. 05
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    1,061 km

If you know how people move in Gopalapatnam – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Gopalapatnam

Gopalapatnam is 8 km from Visakhapatnam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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