According to the census of 2001, the population of Vizag stood at 969, 608 out of which 489, 038 were males and 480, 038 were females. According to the same census, Vizag had 97,049 people under the age of 6, which was almost 10% of the total population of the city.Out of them, 49,343 were males and the rest 47,706 were females.
Vizag has a literacy rate of 69%, higher than the national average of 59.5%. Around 74% of the total male population in Vizag is literate.The percentage of literate females is 63%. The total number of literate people in the city in 2001 was 666,265 out of which 363, 766 were males and 302,499 were females.
Vizag, lying within the co-ordinates of 17º 42’ North Latitude and 83º 15’ East Longitude, is one of the major cities of Andhra Pradesh.Telugu is the main language of the people here. But there are two dialects of Telugu which are spoken in the city, the common dialect and Uttarandha dialect. After Telugu, Hindi is the most extensively used language in this coastal city. English is hugely spoken by the people of Vizag. There are a large number of Bengalis and Oriyas in the coastal city and therefore both these languages are extensively spoken as well.
