List of districts of Andhra Pradesh

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Districts of Andhra Pradesh
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CategoryDistricts
Location Andhra Pradesh
Number26 districts
Populations Parvathipuram Manyam – 9,25,340 (lowest); Nellore – 24,69,712 (highest)
Areas Visakhapatnam – 1,048 km2 (405 sq mi)(smallest); Prakasam – 14,322 km2 (5,530 sq mi)(largest)
Government
Subdivisions

The state of Andhra Pradesh has 26 districts. Visakhapatnam district is the smallest district in area while Prakasam district is the largest. Nellore district is the most populous whereas Parvathipuram Manyam district is the least populous district. The districts are further divided into two or more revenue divisions, which are further subdivided into mandals for administrative purposes.

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History

At the time of Independence the present day Andhra Pradesh was a part of the Madras State. The telugu speaking dominant regions Kostaandhra and Rayalaseema were separated from Madras State to form Andhra State in 1953. [1]

As Andhra State, it consisted of 11 districts which are Anantapur, Chittoor, East Godavari, Guntur, Kadapa, Krishna, Kurnool, Nellore, Srikakulam, Visakhapatnam and West Godavari. [2] [3]

As a result of the 1956 States Reorganisation Act, the state's boundaries were re-organized following linguistic lines. On 1 November 1956, the Andhra State and the Telangana region of the Hyderabad State were merged to form the Andhra Pradesh which is retrospectively referred to as United Andhra Pradesh.

As united Andhra Pradesh, it consisted of 21 district's, with 10 districts of Telangana region.[ citation needed ] In the year 1959, Bhadrachalam and Nuguru Venkatapuram taluks of East Godavari district, which are on the other side of the Godavari River, were merged into Khammam district on grounds of geographical contiguity and administrative viability. Similarly Aswaraopeta part of West Godavari District was added to Khammam district and Munagala taluk belonging to Krishna district was added to Nalgonda district in the same year. [4]

The number of districts became 23 with the formation of Prakasam district from the parts of Guntur, Nellore and Kurnool district's in 1970 and Vizianagaram district from parts of Visakhapatnam and Srikakulam districts in 1979.

After the bifurcation of the United Andhra Pradesh in 2014, the Andhra region now known as Andhra Pradesh was left with 13 districts but was given several tribal-dominated mandals from the Khammam district of the Telangana as part of the Polavaram project. These mandals were added to the East Godavari and West Godavari district's respectively. [5] [6] [7] [8]

On 26 January 2022, the Government of Andhra Pradesh had proposed 13 new districts by issuing a draft notification under the Andhra Pradesh Districts (Formation) Act, 1974, Section 3(5). [9] [10] After taking the objections and suggestions received from the public into consideration, the government has published the final notification on 3 April 2022. With effect from 4 April 2022 the newly formed districts came into effect as specified in the schedule. [11] [12] [13] At present there are 26 districts spread across 3 cultural regions: Uttaraandhra, Kostaandhra and Rayalaseema.

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Districts

The state is further divided into 26 districts, with North Andhra comprising six districts, Coastal Andhra comprising 12 districts, and Rayalaseema comprising eight districts. [14] These districts are made up of 76 revenue divisions, [15] 679 mandals [15] and 13,324 village panchayats as part of the administrative organisation. [16]

North Andhra:

  1. Alluri Sitharama Raju
  2. Anakapalli
  3. Parvathipuram Manyam
  4. Srikakulam
  5. Visakhapatnam
  6. Vizianagaram

Coastal Andhra:

  1. Bapatla
  2. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Konaseema
  3. East Godavari
  4. Eluru
  5. Guntur
  6. Kakinada
  7. Krishna
  8. NTR
  9. Palnadu
  10. Prakasam
  11. Sri Potti Sriramulu Nellore
  12. West Godavari

Rayalaseema:

  1. Anantapur
  2. Annamayya
  3. Chittoor
  4. YSR (Kadapa)
  5. Kurnool
  6. Nandyal
  7. Sri Sathya Sai
  8. Tirupati


S.NoCode [17] Official nameHeadquartersPast DistrictRevenue
divisions		MandalsPopulationArea
(in sq.km)		Density
(per sq.km)		Map
1SRI Srikakulam Srikakulam 33021,91,4714,591477.34 Srikakulam in Andhra Pradesh (India).svg
2PAR Parvathipuram Manyam Parvathipuram Srikakulam, Vizianagaram.2159,25,3403,659252.89 Parvathipuram Manyam in Andhra Pradesh (India).svg
3VIZ Vizianagaram Vizianagaram 32719,30,8114,122468.42 Vizianagaram in Andhra Pradesh (India).svg
4VIS Visakhapatnam Visakhapatnam 21119,59,5441,0481869.79 Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh (India).svg
5ALL Alluri Sitharama Raju Paderu East Godavari, Visakhapatnam, Vizianagaram.3229,53,96012,25177.87 Alluri Sitharama Raju in Andhra Pradesh (India).svg
6ANA Anakapalli Anakapalli Visakhapatnam 22517,26,9984,292402.38 Anakapalli in Andhra Pradesh (India).svg
7KAK Kakinada Kakinada East Godavari 22120,92,3743,019693.07 Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh (India).svg
8EAS East Godavari Rajamahendravaram 21918,32,3322,561715.48 East Godavari in Andhra Pradesh (India).svg
9KON Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Konaseema Amalapuram East Godavari 32217,19,0932,083825.30 Konaseema in Andhra Pradesh (India).svg
10ELU Eluru Eluru West Godavari 32720,06,7376,579305.02 Eluru in Andhra Pradesh (India).svg
11WES West Godavari Bhimavaram 32018,44,8982,278809.88 West Godavari in Andhra Pradesh (India).svg
12NTR NTR Vijayawada Krishna 32022,18,5913,316669.06 NTR in Andhra Pradesh (India).svg
13KRI Krishna Machilipatnam 32617,35,0793,775459.62 Krishna in Andhra Pradesh (India).svg
14PAL Palnadu Narasaraopeta Guntur 32820,41,7237,298279.76 Palnadu in Andhra Pradesh (India).svg
15GUN Guntur Guntur 21820,91,0752,443855.95 Guntur in Andhra Pradesh (India).svg
16BAP Bapatla Bapatla Guntur 32515,86,9183,829414.45 Bapatla in Andhra Pradesh (India).svg
17NEL Sri Potti Sriramulu Nellore Nellore 43824,69,71210,441236.54 Sri Potti Sriramulu Nellore in Andhra Pradesh (India).svg
18PRA Prakasam Ongole 33922,88,02614,322159.76 Prakasam in Andhra Pradesh (India).svg
19KUR Kurnool Kurnool 32622,71,6867,980284.67 Kurnool in Andhra Pradesh (India).svg
20NAN Nandyal Nandyal Kurnool 33017,81,7779,682184.03 Nandyal in Andhra Pradesh (India).svg
21ANA Anantapuramu Anantapuram 33222,41,10510,205219.61 Anantapur in Andhra Pradesh (India).svg
22SSS Sri Sathya Sai Puttaparthi Anantapuramu 43218,40,0438,925206.17 Sri Sathya Sai in Andhra Pradesh (India).svg
23CUD YSR Kadapa 43620,60,65411,228183.53 YSR in Andhra Pradesh (India).svg
24ANN Annamayya Rayachoti Chittoor, YSR 33016,97,3087,954213.39 Annamayya in Andhra Pradesh (India).svg
25TIR Tirupati Tirupati Chittoor, Nellore 43421,96,9848,231266.92 Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh (India).svg
26CHI Chittoor Chittoor 43218,72,9516,855273.22 Chittoor in Andhra Pradesh (India).svg
List of districts of Andhra Pradesh
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