Samalkot is located at a distance of 12 km from Kakinada, 52 Km from Rajahmundry. Bhimavaram which now forms part of Samalkot town, is known as Bhimavara Kshetram with its famous temple of Kumararama Bhimesvara. The village was known in the past as Chalukya Bhimavaram according to the inscriptions found in the temple. It is situated at a distance of about 11 kilometers to the North of Kakinada in East Godavari District of Andhra Pradesh and is on the Chennai Howrah broad gauge railway line of South Central Railway.
