COCANADA, a town of British India, administrative head quarters of the Godavari district of Madras, situated on the coast in the extreme north of the Godavari delta, about 315 m. N. of Madras. Pop. (1931) 65,952. Cocanada is the fourth port of Madras. The roadstead in Coringa bay is protected but shallow, so that steamers have to lie 7 m. out, and the entrance to the canal, where the piers and wharves are situated has to be constantly dredged. The town is connected by navigable channels with the canal system of the Godavari delta, and by a branch line with Samalkof on the East Coast railway. The chief exports are rice, cotton and oilseeds. The industries include rice and oil mills, tile and salt works and tobacco manufacture. The town contains a college, orphanage and training college.