List of districts of Andhra Pradesh

Districts of Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh Political Map
CategoryDistricts
LocationAndhra Pradesh
Number28
PopulationsPolavaram – 3,49,953 (lowest); Tirupati – 29,47,547 (highest)
AreasVisakhapatnam – 1,048 km2 (405 sq mi) (smallest); YSR Kadapa – 12,507 km2 (4,829 sq mi) (largest)
Government
Subdivisions

The state of Andhra Pradesh has 28 districts. Visakhapatnam district is the smallest district in area while Kadapa district is the largest. Tirupati district is the most populous whereas Polavaram district is the least populous district. The districts are further divided into one, 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 districts, with 10 districts of Telangana region. 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 districts 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 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.

The government formed Markapuram and Polavaram districts with effect from 31 December 2025 after receiving proposals from public. [14]

Timeline

Major changes

  • (1953–1956)
  • (1956–2014)
  • (2014–2022)
  • (2022–2025)
  • (31 Dec 2025-)

Minor changes

Districts

The state is further divided into 28 districts, with North Andhra comprising seven districts, Coastal Andhra comprising twelve districts, and Rayalaseema comprising nine districts.[15] These districts are made up of 81 revenue divisions, 688 mandals [14][16] and 13,324 village panchayats as part of the administrative organisation.[17]

Districts by regions

North Andhra (Uttaraandhra):[18]

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

Coastal Andhra (Kosta Andhra):

  1. Bapatla
  2. Konaseema
  3. East Godavari
  4. Eluru
  5. Guntur
  6. Kakinada
  7. Krishna
  8. NTR
  9. Palnadu
  10. Prakasam
  11. Nellore
  12. West Godavari

Rayalaseema:

  1. Ananthapuramu
  2. Annamayya
  3. Chittoor
  4. YSR Kadapa
  5. Kurnool
  6. Markapuram
  7. Nandyal
  8. Sri Sathya Sai
  9. Tirupati

Existing districts

District statistics (Population, Area, density need updation as per the latest district restructure)
S.No Code Official name Headquarters Revenue divisions Mandals Population Area Density Map
1 ALL Alluri Sitharama Raju Paderu 1 11 6,04,031 6,251 77.87
2 ANA Anakapalli Anakapalli 3 24 17,26,998 4,292 402.38
3 ANA Ananthapuramu Anantapuram 3 32 22,41,105 10,205 219.61
4 ANN Annamayya Madanapalli 3 25 16,97,308 7,954 213.39
5 BAP Bapatla Bapatla 3 20 15,86,918 3,829 414.45
6 CHI Chittoor Chittoor 3 28 18,72,951 6,855 273.22
7 KON Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Konaseema Amalapuram 3 19 17,19,093 2,083 825.30
8 EAS East Godavari Rajamahendravaram 2 22 18,32,332 2,561 715.48
9 ELU Eluru Eluru 3 28 20,06,737 6,579 305.02
10 GUN Guntur Guntur 2 18 20,91,075 2,443 855.95
11 KAK Kakinada Kakinada 2 21 20,92,374 3,019 693.07
12 KRI Krishna Machilipatnam 3 26 17,35,079 3,775 459.62
13 KUR Kurnool Kurnool 3 27 22,71,686 7,980 284.67
14 MAR Markapuram Markapuram 2 21 11,42,313 8,456 190.4
15 NAN Nandyal Nandyal 4 30 17,81,777 9,682 184.03
16 NEL Sri Potti Sriramulu Nellore Nellore 3 36 24,69,712 10,441 236.54
17 NTR NTR Vijayawada 3 20 22,18,591 3,316 669.06
18 PAL Palnadu Narasaraopeta 3 28 20,41,723 7,298 279.76
19 PAR Parvathipuram Manyam Parvathipuram 2 15 9,25,340 3,659 252.89
20 POL Polavaram Rampachodavaram 2 12 3,49,929
21 PRA Prakasam Ongole 3 28 17,67,633 6,322 259.76
22 SRI Srikakulam Srikakulam 3 30 21,91,471 4,591 477.34
23 SSS Sri Sathya Sai Puttaparthi 5 32 18,40,043 8,925 206.17
24 TIR Tirupati Tirupati 4 36 21,96,984 8,231 266.92
25 VIS Visakhapatnam Visakhapatnam 2 11 19,59,544 1,048 1869.79
26 VIZ Vizianagaram Vizianagaram 3 28 19,30,811 4,122 468.42
27 WES West Godavari Bhimavaram 3 20 18,44,898 2,278 809.88
28 CUD YSR Kadapa Kadapa 5 40 20,60,654 11,228 183.53

Clickable map of existing districts

See also

References

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