Subarnapur, also known as Sonepur, is a town and district headquarters of Subarnapur district of Odisha. The district spreads over an area of 2284.89 km. It is also known as Second Varanasi of India for its cluster of temples having architectural importance and also of tantricism and second Allahabad for the Meeting Point (Sangam) of two rivers Mahanadi and Tel in place just like in Allahabad. Subarnapur is also famous for silk, handloom, prawns, terracotta etc.

Sonepur was formerly the capital of Sonepur State, a princely state of British India.

As of 2001 India census, Sonepur town had a population of 17,535. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Sonepur has an average literacy rate of 74%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 82%, and female literacy is 65%. In Sonepur, 11% of the population is under 6 years of age.

• Sonepur College, Sonepur

• Kosaleswara temple
• Lankeswari Temple
• Narayani Temple
• Ramachandi Temple
• Subarnameru Temple
• Sureswari temple

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• Balaji Temple, Subarnapur
• Bhagavati Temple
• Budhima Temple
• Budhi Somalai Temple
• Dadhibaban Temple
• Dasamati Temple
• Gokarneswar Temple
• Gundicha / Nrusimhanath Temple
• Jagannath Temple
• Khambeswari Temple
• Maa Chardei Temple Charda
• Pancharatha Temple
• Paschima Somanath Temple
• Rameswar Temple
• Shree Kapileshwar Temple Charda
• ShreeRam Temple
• Somaleswari temple

• Kailash Chandra Meher, painter, awarded Padma Shri by Govt. of India.

• Sonepuri Sari

Current MLA from Sonepur (SC) Assembly Constituency is Niranjan Pujari of BJD, who won the seat in State elections in 2014. Previous MLAs from this seat were Binod Patra of INC, who won the seat in 2004, Kunduru Kushal who won this seat representing BJD in 2000, representing JD in 1995 and in 1990, Achyuta Biswal of INC in 1985, Dhaneswar Kumbhar of INC(I) in 1980, and Debraj Seth of JNP in 1977.

Sonepur is part of Balangir (Lok Sabha constituency).

• Sonepuri
• History of Sonepur, Odisha

• Pasayat, C. and Sudam Naik (2008), Subarnapur Darabari Sahitya (in Oriya), Bhubaneswar: Gyanajuga Publications.
• Pasayat, C. (Ed.) (2008), Paschima Odisara Lokageeta (in Oriya), Bhubaneswar: Folklore Foundation.
• Padhy, S.K. History and Culture of Sonepur Ph.D. thesis, Berhampur University, 2000 .
• Accommodation in Sonepur "HOTEL KASTURI"