 It is called as Rice Bowl city of Karnataka, as it hosts hundreds of Rice Mills and exports rice to tip and corner of the state/country

Gangavathi lies at an average elevation of , and is situated close to the Tungabhadra Dam.It is a taluka (administrative division) of Koppal, a district that was previously part of Raichur and recently Gangavathi taluk bifurcated into kanakagiri and karatagi, those are new taluks in koppal district.The major sub-districts of the town of Gangavathi are