Palakonda revenue division (or Palakonda division) is an
administrative division
Administrative division, administrative unit,Article 3(1). country subdivision, administrative region, subnational entity, constituent state, as well as many similar terms, are generic names for geographical areas into which a particular, ind ...
in the
Parvathipuram Manyam district
Parvathipuram Manyam district is a district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. With Parvathipuram as its administrative headquarters, it became functional from 4th April 2022. The district was formed from Parvathipuram revenue division fr ...
of the
Indian state
India is a federal union comprising 28 states and 8 union territories, with a total of 36 entities. The states and union territories are further subdivided into districts and smaller administrative divisions.
History
Pre-indepen ...
of
Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to the ...
. It is one of the two
revenue divisions in the district with seven
mandals
A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administr ...
under its administration.
The divisional headquarters are located at
Palakonda
Palakonda is a town in Parvathipuram Manyam district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is a nagar panchayat and the mandal headquarters of Palakonda mandal in Palakonda revenue division
Geography
Palakonda is located at . It has an a ...
.
Administration
The 7 mandals administered under the revenue division are:
Demographics
The division has a population of 7,98,407. 7,28,847 is rural and 69,560 urban. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 13.21% and 14.66% of the population respectively.
98.31% of the population is Hindu and 1.15% Christian.
At the time of the 2011 census, 91.68% of the population spoke
Telugu
Telugu may refer to:
* Telugu language, a major Dravidian language of India
*Telugu people, an ethno-linguistic group of India
* Telugu script, used to write the Telugu language
** Telugu (Unicode block), a block of Telugu characters in Unicode
S ...
, 5.28%
Saora and 2.42%
Odia
Odia, also spelled Oriya or Odiya, may refer to:
* Odia people in Odisha, India
* Odia language, an Indian language, belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family
* Odia alphabet, a writing system used for the Odia languag ...
as their first language.
See also
*
List of revenue divisions in Andhra Pradesh
*
List of mandals in Andhra Pradesh
Mandal in Andhra Pradesh, India is a sub-District. History
The Mandal system came into existence as an administrative reform, as part of reducing the size of erstwhile taluks and making them more effective and manageable. The decentralisation of ...
References
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Revenue divisions in Andhra Pradesh