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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 km2 (405 sq mi) (smallest); Prakasam – 14,322 km2 (5,530 sq mi) (largest)
Government	Government of Andhra Pradesh;
Subdivisions	Revenue Divisions of Andhra Pradesh;

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.

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 consists 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.^{[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 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.

Timeline

(1953–1956)
(1956–2014)
(2014–2022)
(2022–2023)
(since 2023)

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 77 revenue divisions,^[15] 685 mandals^[15] and 13,324 village panchayats as part of the administrative organisation.^[16]

North Andhra:

Coastal Andhra:

Rayalaseema:

S.No	Code^[17]	Official name	Headquarters	Past District	Revenue divisions	Mandals	Population	Area (in sq.km)	Density (per sq.km)
1	SRI	Srikakulam	Srikakulam		3	30	21,91,471	4,591	477.34
2	PAR	Parvathipuram Manyam	Parvathipuram	Srikakulam, Vizianagaram.	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	East Godavari, Visakhapatnam, Vizianagaram.	3	22	9,53,960	12,251	77.87
6	ANA	Anakapalli	Anakapalli	Visakhapatnam	2	25	17,26,998	4,292	402.38
7	KAK	Kakinada	Kakinada	East Godavari	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	Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Konaseema	Amalapuram	East Godavari	3	22	17,19,093	2,083	825.30
10	ELU	Eluru	Eluru	West Godavari, Krishna	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	Krishna	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	Guntur	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	Guntur Prakasam	3	25	15,86,918	3,829	414.45
17	NEL	Sri Potti Sriramulu Nellore	Nellore		4	38	24,69,712	10,441	236.54
18	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	Kurnool	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	Anantapuramu	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	Chittoor, YSR	3	30	16,97,308	7,954	213.39
25	TIR	Tirupati	Tirupati	Chittoor, Nellore	4	34	21,96,984	8,231	266.92
26	CHI	Chittoor	Chittoor		4	32	18,72,951	6,855	273.22