Krishna district
Sign in to savedistrict of Andhra Pradesh, India
Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Andhra Pradesh
- Region
- Coastal Andhra
- Headquarters
- Machilipatnam
- Administrative divisions
- 03 revenue divisions 26 mandals
- District collector and magistrate
- D. K. Balaji IAS
- Superintendent of police
- Adnan Nayoom Azmi IPS
- Lok sabha constituencies
- 01 constituency
- Assembly constituencies
- 07 constituencies
- Total
- 3,773 km (1,457 sq mi)
- Density
- 459.9/km (1,191/sq mi)
- Literacy
- 73.74%
- Vehicle registration
- AP-16 (former) , AP–39, AP–40 (from 30 January 2019)
- Major highways
- NH-65 , NH-216
- Website
- krishna .ap .gov .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Madras Presidency
- Contains
- Kruthivennu mandal
- Capital
- Machilipatnam
- Population
- 4517398
- Area
- 8727
- Shares border with
- Guntur district
- Official website
- krishna.ap.gov.in
- Image
- Krishna District Montage 01.png
- Households
- 1243293
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- Commons category
- Krishna district
- topic's main category
- Category:Krishna district
- female population
- 2250023
- male population
- 2267375
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Krishna district
- urban population
- 1843660
- rural population
- 2673738
- literate population
- 3009718
- illiterate population
- 1507680
- short name
- KRS
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
via Wikidata · CC0
~14 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Krishna district is a district in the Coastal Andhra region in Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, with Machilipatnam as its administrative headquarters. It is surrounded on the east by Bay of Bengal, west by Guntur, Bapatla and north by Eluru and NTR districts and south again by Bay of Bengal.
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Krishna district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.