Local businesses in Vadodara
Listed in OpenStreetMap within 3.5 km of the city centre.
- Restaurants and cafes: 54
- Chatkazz Vadapav; Oven Magick; 22nd Parallel; Canara Coffee House; MotaBhai Cholebhature; Rajdeep Khaman House; Coco Chai; FTE Canteen; Frigtemp; Rail Aahar
- Clothing shops: 7
- Marks And Spencers; Palav shree ani Madayali ; Sachin Tailor; Rare Rabbit; Max Fashion; Westside
- Jewellers: 1
- Ashray Jewellers (Panvadwala)
- Supermarkets: 1
- Gelco Sales
- Clinics: 54
- Ashutosh Clinic; Aum Advanced Orthopaedic Clinic; Aum Medical Nursing Home; Baroda Children Eye Care And Squint Clinic; City Plaza Eye Clinic; Darsh Orthodontic Clinic; Dr. Dandekar Eye Clinic And Surgery Centre; Dr. Mihir Acharya Neuro Clinic; Dr. Minaxi B. Ramchandani Clinic; Dr. Mona Shah's Clinic
- Schools: 14
- Baroda High School ONGC; Maharani English Medium School; Maharani Kanya Vidyalaya; Jivan bharti school; Little Flowers School; Mahatma Gandhi Vidhyalaya; Parth School of Science and competition; Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan School; Cricket Pitch; Shreyas School
Vadodara facts
- District
- Vadodara district
- Population, 2011 Census
- 20,65,771
- Area
- about 235 sq km, about 129 m above sea level
- PIN codes
- 382355 (Vadodara), 390001 (Vadodara), 362255 (Vadodara Dodia), 362275 (Vadodarazala)
- Places nearby
- Sursagar Lake (lake, 1 km), Khanderao Market (building, 1 km), Maharaja Fateh Singh Museum (museum, 1 km), Lakshmi Vilas Palace (palace, 1 km)
- Local economy
- Vadodara has large industries around the Gujarat Refinery of Indian Oil, including Gujarat State Fertilizers and Chemicals, a Reliance manufacturing division, Deepak Nitrite, Linde Engineering India and Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals.
- Getting there
- Vadodara lies on the main rail and road routes linking Mumbai with Delhi and Ahmedabad.
- History
- The city was once called Chandanavati after Raja Chandan, and later Vadpatraka. Vadodara is said to come from the Sanskrit vatodara, in the belly of the banyan tree.
Sources: Census of India 2011, Wikipedia, Wikidata, India Post and OpenStreetMap. Last checked 14 October 2026.