Srikakulam

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Srikakulam ( Telugu: శ్రీకాకుళం; earlier anglicized Chica Cole ) is a city in the northeast of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is the capital of the district of the same and has about 110,000 inhabitants. Srikakulam is situated on the river Nagavali. The city is the seat of the eponymous diocese of Srikakulam.

The area around the town is agricultural.

The region around Srikakulam was in the late 1960s the center of a naxalitisch inspired peasant revolt.