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Visakhapatnam district
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district of Andhra Pradesh, India
Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Andhra Pradesh
- Region
- Uttara Andhra
- Created
- 1 April 1936
- Headquarters
- Visakhapatnam
- Administrative divisions
- 02 revenue divisions 11 mandals
- District collector and magistrate
- M N Harendhira Prasad IAS
- Lok sabha constituencies
- 01 constituency
- Assembly constituencies
- 06 constituencies
- Total
- 1,048 km (405 sq mi)
- Rank
- 26th
- Density
- 1,869.8/km (4,843/sq mi)
- Urban
- 1,757,542
- Sex ratio
- 1,006♀️/1,000♂️
- Official
- Telugu
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Postal index number
- 530xxx
- Area codes
- +91–0891
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Madras Presidency
- Capital
- Visakhapatnam
- Official language
- Telugu
- Population
- 4290589
- Area
- 11161
- Body of water
- Bay of Bengal
- Shares border with
- Anakapalli district
- Official website
- www.gvmc.gov.in/wss
- Image
- Vizag Montage 2018.jpg
- Households
- 1097042
- Dialing code
- 0891
- Licence plate code
- AP-39
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- Commons category
- Visakhapatnam district
- topic's main category
- Category:Visakhapatnam district
- male population
- 2138910
- female population
- 2151679
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Visakhapatnam district
- urban population
- 2035922
- rural population
- 2254667
- literate population
- 2568249
- illiterate population
- 1722340
- short name
- VSK
- inception
- 1802-00-00
- postal code
- 530001
- hashtag
- visakhapatnam
- train depot
- Visakhapatnam Junction railway station
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Encyclopedic overview
Visakhapatnam district is a district in the Uttarandhra region of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, headquartered at Visakhapatnam. It is one of the twenty-six districts in Andhra Pradesh state. The district shares borders with Vizianagaram district in north and south-east and with Anakapalli district in the south-west and Bay of Bengal in the south.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Visakhapatnam district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.