Kakinada Urban mandal is one of the 21

mandal 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 ...

s in

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 ...

of the state 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 ...

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. It has its headquarters at

Kakinada Kakinada ( formerly called Kakinandiwada, Coringa, and Cocanada; ) is the sixth largest city of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh and serves as the district headquarters of the Kakinada District. It lies on the coast of the Bay of Bengal. J. ...

city, that covers the entire mandal. The mandal is surrounded by Kakinada (rural) mandal and lies on the coast of

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Demographics

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, the mandal had a population of 312,538. The total population constitute, 152,571 males and 159,967 females —a sex ratio of 1049 females per 1000 males. 29,698 children are in the age group of 0–6 years, of which 15,041 are boys and 14,657 are girls —a ratio of 975 per 1000. The average literacy rate stands at 80.62% with 228,034 literates.

Towns and villages

Kakinada (urban) mandal consists of only one town of

and has no villages and hence, it is a fully urban mandal.

References

{{Kakinada district Mandals in Kakinada district Mandals in Andhra Pradesh