Local businesses in Tanuku
Listed in OpenStreetMap within 3.5 km of the city centre.
- Restaurants and cafes: 12
- Alankar Family Restaurant; Madina; Sharmista Foods; Sharmista Foods (Family Restaurant); Tea Tree; Green land family resturant; Hungry Harbour; Saravanabhava Home Foods; Teja hotel A/C; KFC
- Clothing shops: 1
- Trends
- Jewellers: 2
- Nooli Jwellers
- Supermarkets: 3
- Diamond Plaza; Reliance Smart; DMart
- Clinics: 12
- Anapurna Nursing Home; People's Nursing Home; Priyanka Nursing Home; SVB Nursing Home; Satyavathi Nursing Home; Savitri Nursing Home; Sri Karuna Nursing Home; Sri Satyanarayana Nursing Home; Sri Sirisha Nursing Home; Supraja Clinic
- Schools: 11
- Montessori Ground; Bhashyam public school grounds; Montessori School Bus Parking; Montessori residential high school; Sasi Degree College; Vimala Convent; Adarsh high school; School; Zilla Parishad High School; Ravindra Bharathi School
Tanuku facts
- District
- West Godavari district
- Population, 2011 Census
- 77,962 (72,970 in 2001)
- Area
- about 24.83 sq km, about 12 m above sea level
- PIN codes
- 534211 (Tanuku Old Town)
- Local economy
- Andhra Sugars supplies liquid hydrogen to ISRO for use as rocket propellant. Tanuku has long been associated with rice mills, oil mills, textile-related units, cardboard and paper, aquaculture and poultry.
- Culture and food
- Tanuku is the birthplace of Nannaya, regarded as the first poet of the Telugu language, who translated the Mahabharata from Sanskrit to Telugu.
- History
- In ancient times Tanuku was known as Tarakapuri, the capital of the demon king Tarakasura.
Sources: Census of India 2011, Wikipedia, Wikidata, India Post and OpenStreetMap. Last checked 14 October 2026.