Local businesses in Varanasi
Listed in OpenStreetMap within 3.5 km of the city centre.
- IT and company offices: 6
- A Better Logic; Hospes India Travel and Hospieality Privte Limited; Wedding Reels - Creative wedding photography company; Puja Office
- Government offices: 1
- Sarkary job
- Colleges and universities: 12
- Sampurnanand Sanskrit University; Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth; Sampoornanand Sanskrit University; Arya Mahila Degree College; Cutting Memorial Inter College; Government Girls Inter College; HCPG COLLEGE; Teachers Training College; Tulsi Niketan Balika inter college; Vidya Bihar Inter College Salarpur
- Workshops and craft businesses: 3
- Photos for documents; Shoe Repair
- Banks: 20
- Kashi Gomti samyut gramin bank; spencers; Muthoot finance; Vijaya Bank; Karnataka Bank; Union Bank; Bank of India; Union Bank of India; Bank of Baroda; ICICI Bank
- Hospitals: 102
- Pt Deen Dayal District Combined Hospital; Rohit Laproscopic Surgical Center; Samvedna Hospital, Varanasi; Surya Super Speciality Hospital; Amit Gupta Hospital; Arunoday Hospital; Ashirvad Hospital & Research Centre; Ashirvad Hospital and Research Center; Avi Hospital; Banaras Medicity Heart & Super Speciality Hospital
Varanasi facts
- District
- Varanasi district
- Population, 2011 Census
- 11,98,491
- Area
- about 82.1 sq km, about 76 m above sea level
- PIN codes
- 221001 (Varanasi City), 221002 (Varanasi Cantt)
- Places nearby
- Jagadamba Nepali Dharmashala (building, 1 km), Alamgir Mosque (mosque, 1 km), Sankata Devi Mandir (Hindu Temple, 1 km), Ratneshwar Mahadev temple (temple, 1 km)
- History
- Traditional etymology links Varanasi to two Ganga tributaries that form the city's borders, the Varuna and the Assi.
- Education
- Varanasi has been a centre of education in India, with a literacy rate of about 80 per cent.
- Local economy
- Tourism is Varanasi's second most important industry, with domestic visitors coming mostly for religious reasons and foreign visitors for the ghats on the Ganga and Sarnath. Manufacturing employs the largest share of workers.
Sources: Census of India 2011, Wikipedia, Wikidata, India Post and OpenStreetMap. Last checked 14 October 2026.