Payment Gateway Integration for Pithapuram businesses
Local businesses in Pithapuram
Listed in OpenStreetMap within 3.5 km of the city centre.
- Restaurants and cafes: 2
Pithapuram facts
- District
- Kakinada district
- Population, 2011 Census
- 54,859 (50,103 in 2001)
- Area
- about 22.71 sq km, about 10 m above sea level
- People
- 75% literacy
- PIN codes
- 533450 (Pithapuram Town), 530003 (Pithapuram Colony)
- Places nearby
- Kukkuteswara Temple (Hindu temple, 3 km)
- Getting there
- Pithapuram lies on National Highway 216, and its railway station is on the Howrah–Chennai main line.
- Geography
- Pithapuram stands about 10 m above sea level, about 20 km from Kakinada and 75 km from Rajahmundry.
- History
- Pithapuram was originally Pishtapura, first mentioned around 350 CE in the Prayaga Pillar inscription of Samudragupta, which records his victory over King Mahendra of Pishtapura.
Sources: Census of India 2011, Wikipedia, Wikidata, India Post and OpenStreetMap. Last checked 14 October 2026.