List of districts of Andhra Pradesh

Districts of Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh Political Map
Category	Districts
Location	Andhra Pradesh
Number	26 districts
Populations	Parvathipuram Manyam – 9,25,340 (lowest); Nellore – 24,69,712 (highest)
Areas	Visakhapatnam – 1,048 km^2 (405 sq mi)(smallest); Prakasam – 14,322 km^2 (5,530 sq mi)(largest)
Government	Government of Andhra Pradesh
Subdivisions	Revenue Divisions of Andhra Pradesh

The state of Andhra Pradesh has 26 districts spread across three cultural regions: Uttaraandhra, Kostaandhra and Rayalaseema. Uttaarandhra consists of Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, Parvathipuram Manyam, Alluri Sitharama Raju, Visakhapatnam and Anakapalli districts. Coastal andhra comprises Kakinada, Konaseema, East Godavari, West Godavari, Eluru, Krishna, NTR, Guntur, Palnadu, Bapatla, Prakasam and Sri Potti Sriramulu Nellore districts. Rayalaseema consists of Kurnool, Nandyal, Anantapuramu, Sri Sathya Sai, YSR, Annamayya, Tirupati and Chittoor districts.

Visakhapatnam district is the smallest district in area while Prakasam district is the largest. Sri Potti Sriramulu 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.

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.

Timeline

• 
  (1953–1956)
• 
  (1956–2014)
• 
  (2014–2022)
• 
  (2022–2023)
• 
  (2023 - )

Districts

S.No	Code[14]	Official name	Headquarters	Revenue divisions	Mandals	Population	Area (in sq.km)	Density (per sq.km)	Map
1	SRI	Srikakulam	Srikakulam	3	30	21,91,471	4,591	477.34
2	PAR	Parvathipuram Manyam	Parvathipuram	2	15	9,25,340	3,659	252.89
3	VIZ	Vizianagaram	Vizianagaram	3	27	19,30,811	4,122	468.42
4	VIS	Visakhapatnam	Visakhapatnam	2	11	19,59,544	1,048	1869.79
5	ALL	Alluri Sitharama Raju	Paderu	3	22	9,53,960	12,251	77.87
6	ANA	Anakapalli	Anakapalli	2	25	17,26,998	4,292	402.38
7	KAK	Kakinada	Kakinada	2	21	20,92,374	3,019	693.07
8	EAS	East Godavari	Rajamahendravaram	2	19	18,32,332	2,561	715.48
9	KON	Konaseema	Amalapuram	3	22	17,19,093	2,083	825.30
10	ELU	Eluru	Eluru	3	27	20,06,737	6,579	305.02
11	WES	West Godavari	Bhimavaram	3	20	18,44,898	2,278	809.88
12	NTR	NTR	Vijayawada	3	20	22,18,591	3,316	669.06
13	KRI	Krishna	Machilipatnam	3	26	17,35,079	3,775	459.62
14	PAL	Palnadu	Narasaraopeta	3	28	20,41,723	7,298	279.76
15	GUN	Guntur	Guntur	2	18	20,91,075	2,443	855.95
16	BAP	Bapatla	Bapatla	3	25	15,86,918	3,829	414.45
18	NEL	Sri Potti Sriramulu Nellore	Nellore	4	38	24,69,712	10,441	236.54
17	PRA	Prakasam	Ongole	3	39	22,88,026	14,322	159.76
19	KUR	Kurnool	Kurnool	3	26	22,71,686	7,980	284.67
20	NAN	Nandyal	Nandyal	3	30	17,81,777	9,682	184.03
21	ANA	Anantapuramu	Anantapuram	3	32	22,41,105	10,205	219.61
22	SSS	Sri Sathya Sai	Puttaparthi	4	32	18,40,043	8,925	206.17
23	CUD	YSR	Kadapa	4	36	20,60,654	11,228	183.53
24	ANN	Annamayya	Rayachoti	3	30	16,97,308	7,954	213.39
25	TIR	Tirupati	Tirupati	4	34	21,96,984	8,231	266.92
26	CHI	Chittoor	Chittoor	4	32	18,72,951	6,855	273.22

• Source:^[12]

Districts in Andhra Pradesh, zoom and click for interactive identification map

See also

• List of mandals in Andhra Pradesh
• List of districts in India
• List of revenue divisions in Andhra Pradesh

References

1. "History of Andhra Pradesh". The Hans India. 1 November 2020. Archived from the original on 3 April 2022. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
2. "AP new districts: First formed under the empire, Andhra Pradesh's map shaped and reshaped over two centuries". The Times of India. 30 March 2022. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
3. "New districts in AP: Experts want the government to walk the talk". The Hindu. 2 April 2022. Archived from the original on 3 April 2022. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
4. ANI (12 November 2013). "GoM on Andhra bifurcation to elicit views of political parties". Business Standard India. Retrieved 14 March 2023.
5. "Andhra Pradesh takes control of seven mandals in Khammam". Deccan Chronicle. 3 September 2014. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
6. "List of seven mandals to be included in AP". The Hans India. 11 July 2014. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
7. "TS gives up on 7 transferred mandals". The Hindu. 19 August 2014. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 14 March 2023.
8. "Parliament passes bill on Polavaram project". The Hindu. 14 July 2014. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 14 March 2023.
9. "Doubling the number of districts in Andhra Pradesh: The proposal and the criticism". The Indian Express. 31 January 2022. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
10. Raghavendra, V. (26 January 2022). "With creation of 13 new districts, AP now has 26 districts". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Archived from the original on 26 January 2022. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
11. "New districts to come into force on April 4". The Hindu. 30 March 2022. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
12. "Here's how new ap map looks after districts reorganisation". 3 April 2022. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
13. "Andhra Pradesh to have 13 new districts from April 4". india.com. 31 March 2022. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
14. "NIC Policy on format of e-mail Address" (PDF). www.mail.nic.in. 11 September 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 September 2008. Retrieved 15 February 2021.

External links

• Media related to Districts of Andhra Pradesh at Wikimedia Commons