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Kakinada is a Port city and is the headquarters of East Godavari District of Andhra Pradesh. This is one of the largest tier-2 cities of India. The language preferably spoken by the inhabitants of Kakinada is Telugu. In view of preceding history, Kakinada name used to be "Kakanandivada" and later as Co-Canada and lastly it became Kakinada during the time of independence, 1947. It is illustrious for the existence of Seaport and Hope Island. This port is at a distance of 5 km from Kakinada coast making it as extremely anchorage area. The specific economic zone radically comes into view in Kakinada serving it to grow to a high extent. Entertainment being a very essence part of happiness, Kakinada is well versed with various modes of achieving it. It provides a number of recreation facilities not only to the inhabitants of Kakinada but also to inhabitants of nearby towns and villages. There are several spacious parks and most delightful hotels and well infrastructured theatres and a beautiful beach.

Kakinada has also been described in Bhima Khandam as the place with clustered tanks and temples. The temple street (Jawahar) has many temples and there are many tanks exist till now. Maharshi Bulusu Sambamurthy is a well known personality who emerged from kakinada struggled during Indian freedom movement. Present Gandhi Nagar Park area was used by all India Congress during 1923 for their work. Japanese targetted this place during 2nd world war for bombing. It has got heritage for the buildings like P.R.College, Om Tatsat is a building of Brahma Samaj, the Orphanage building, Main office building of State Bank of India. The cultural heritage lies in the Century old Saraswati Gana Sabha, Sangeeta Vidwat Sabha and others. Many famous cine artists are said to have been produced by Young men's happy club and Andhra Seva Sangam belonging to this area.