Yanam district is one of the four districts of the
Union Territory of
Puducherry Puducherry or Pondicherry may refer to:
* Puducherry (union territory), a union territory of India
** Pondicherry, capital of the union territory of Puducherry
** Puducherry district, a district of the union territory of Puducherry
** Puducherry t ...
in India.
Geography
Yanam district occupies an area of ,
It is located south of Kakinada port on the north bank of Godavari river, slightly inland. It is bordered and surrounded by
Konaseema district
Konaseema district, officially known as Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Konaseema district, is a district in Coastal Andhra between the tributaries of the Godavari river in the Konaseema region in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It was carved out of ...
on South and
Kakinada district
Kakinada district is a district in the Coastal Andhra Region in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. With Kakinada as its administrative headquarters, it was proposed on 26 January 2022 to become one of the resultant twenty six districts in th ...
on north (Districts of
Andhra
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 ...
State)
Revenue villages
Apart from the town of Yanam itself, the following villages fall under the district's jurisdiction:
* Agraharam
* Darialatippa
* Farampeta
*
Francetippa
* Guerempeta
* Kanakalapeta
* Kurasampeta
* Mettakur
Demographics
According to the
2011 census Yanam district has a
population of 55,626,
roughly equal to the island of
Greenland.
This gives it a ranking of 629th in India (out of a total of
640
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).
[
The district has a population density of .][ Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 77.15%.][ Yanam has a sex ratio of 1039 females for every 1000 males,][ and a ]literacy rate
Literacy in its broadest sense describes "particular ways of thinking about and doing reading and writing" with the purpose of understanding or expressing thoughts or ideas in written form in some specific context of use. In other words, huma ...
of 80.26%.[
]
See also
* Yanam (India)
* Yanam Municipality
*Karaikal district
Karaikal district ( French: ''District de Karikal'') is one of the four districts of the Union Territory of Puducherry in India.
Geography
Karaikal district occupies an area of .
Karaikal is a small coastal enclave of territory which was f ...
*Mahé district
Mahé district ( ml, മയ്യഴി ജില്ല) is one of the four districts of the union territory of Puducherry, India. It consists of the whole of the Mahé region. Mahé is the smallest district of India by size. The total area of ...
* Puducherry district
References
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Districts of Puducherry