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Nellore

Southern Asia

Nellore is a city on the Penna River in Andhra Pradesh, India, about 170 kilometers north of Chennai, with 600,869 residents at the 2011 census, the fourth most populous city in the state. An administrative and cultural center under successive dynasties, its district was renamed in 2008 to honor Potti Sriramulu, who fasted to death campaigning for the linguistic state of Andhra Pradesh; nicknamed the Shrimp Capital of India for its aquaculture industry, Nellore serves as district headquarters and recorded a nominal GDP of 16,989 crore rupees in 2023-24.

Facts
Population
600,869 1
Area (sq km)
149.02 2
Founding Year
1866 2
Elevation (m)
18 2
Latitude
14.433333 degrees north 2
Longitude
79.966667 degrees east 2
Elevation Band
Lowland 3
Climate Zone
Tropical 4
Time Zone
UTC+05:30 3
Sources
1. Nellore (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Infobox: population_metro
    6,00,869
  • On Continent: Asia, Lead paragraph names India; continent follows from the atlas record for India
    located on the banks of Penna River, in Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh, India
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2. Nellore (Wikidata)
  • P625 (coordinate location)
    latitude 14.433333, longitude 79.966667
  • P2044 (elevation above sea level)
    elevation 18 m
  • P2046 (area)
    area 149.02 sq km
  • P571 (inception)
    inception 1866
  • In Group: Cities of Southern Asia (World), Wikipedia infobox, country field
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3. GeoNames: Nellore - GeoNames
GeoNames
  • cities500 record 1261529
    14.44992 79.98697 P PPLA2 IN 02 550 5177 547621 21 Asia/Kolkata
  • Place record, elevation
    Elevation ca. 21 m
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4. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 14.25, 79.75
Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 14.25, 79.75
14.25 79.75 Aw
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Wikidata: Nellore
Wikidata Q61434, class allow-list match verified against P17/real-world identity (w-geo-qidcite-0926).View the Source
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