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Anantapuramu district
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district of Andhra Pradesh, India
Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Andhra Pradesh
- Region
- Rayalaseema
- Reorganised
- 4 April 2022
- Named after
- Big Tank
- Headquarters
- Anantapur
- Administrative divisions
- 3 Revenue divisions 31 Mandals
- District collector
- M.Gauthami
- Lok sabha
- Lok Sabha list Anantapur Hindupur
- Assembly
- Assembly list Anantapur Guntakal Kalyandurg Raptadu Rayadurg Singanamala (SC) Tadipatri Uravakonda
- Total
- 10,205 km (3,940 sq mi)
- Density
- 219.61/km (568.78/sq mi)
- Sex ratio
- 977 (females per 1,000 males)
- Official
- Telugu
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Postal index number
- 515xxx
- Area codes
- +91–8554
- Iso 3166 code
- IN-AP
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Madras Presidency
- Capital
- Ananthapuram
- Population
- 4081148
- Area
- 19.130
- Shares border with
- Sri Sathya Sai district
- Official website
- ananthapuramu.ap.gov.in
- Households
- 968160
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- Commons category
- Anantapur district
- topic's main category
- Category:Anantapur district
- postal code
- 515001
- male population
- 2064495
- female population
- 2016653
- urban population
- 1145711
- rural population
- 2935437
- short name
- ANT
- literate population
- 2310960
- illiterate population
- 1770188
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Encyclopedic overview
Anantapur district, officially Ananthapuramu district, is one of the eight districts in the Rayalaseema region of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The district headquarters is located in Anantapur city. It is one of the driest places in South India. In the year 2022, as part of re-organisation of districts, Sri Sathya Sai district was carved out.
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Anantapuramu district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.