The locating-chromatic number was introduced by Chartrand in 2002. The locating chromatic number of a graph is a combined concept between the coloring and partition dimension of a graph. The locating chromatic number of a graph is defined as the cardinality of the minimum color classes of the graph. In this paper, we discuss about the locating-chromatic number of shadow path graph and barbell graph containing shadow graph.
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