Prakasam district
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district of Andhra Pradesh, India
Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Andhra Pradesh
- Region
- Coastal Andhra
- Established
- 2 February 1970
- 1st reorganized
- 4 April 2022
- 2nd reorganized
- 31 December 2025
- Named after
- Tanguturi Prakasam
- Headquarters
- Ongolu
- Collector
- P.Raja babu, IAS
- Superintendent of police
- V.Harshavardhan Raju, IPS
- Parliament constituencies
- Ongolu , Bapatla , Nellore
- Assembly constituencies
- 06
- Total
- 14,322 km (5,530 sq mi)
- Density
- 159.76/km (413.77/sq mi)
- Urban
- 19.44%
- Vehicle registration
- AP-27 (former) , AP–39 (from 30 January 2019)
- Major highways
- NH-16
- Website
- prakasam .ap .gov .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Andhra Pradesh
- Capital
- Ongole
- Population
- 3397448
- Area
- 17626
- Shares border with
- Guntur district
- Official website
- prakasam.ap.nic.in
- Image
- Prakasam district Montage.png
- Households
- 860463
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- Commons category
- Prakasam district
- topic's main category
- Category:Prakasam district
- short name
- PRA
- inception
- 1970-02-02
- female population
- 1682684
- male population
- 1714764
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Prakasam district
- urban population
- 664582
- rural population
- 2732866
- literate population
- 1904435
- illiterate population
- 1493013
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Encyclopedic overview
Prakasam district named in honour of Tanguturi Prakasam is in the coastal Andhra region of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It was reorganised on 4 April 2022 and 31 December 2025. The headquarters of the district is Ongole. It is bounded by Bapatla, Palnadu, Markapuram, Sri Potti Sriramulu Nellore districts and Bay of Bengal.
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Prakasam district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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