Visakhapatnam district information: How well do you know the district?

With the booming tourism and industrial sectors, Visakhapatnam district has grabbed the eyeballs of all. The district is no longer a place that is little known and is deemed to scale greater heights in the days to come. Here is some basic information about Visakhapatnam district that you need to know.

Geographical area

The total area of the district is 11,161 sq.km (Urban 632.16 sq.km, Rural 10,528.84 sq.km)

Population

A recent study the Andhra University Population Research Centre estimated the population of Visakhapatnam as 24,48,405 for the year 2019. The district population, as per 2011 census, is 42,88,113.

Visakhapatnam District Collector

Vadarevu Vinay Chand

Visakhapatnam Metropolitan Region Development Authority (VMRDA) Chairman

Dronamraju Srinivas Rao

Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Commissioner (GVMC)

Gummala Srijana

Visakhapatnam Police Commissioner

Rajeev Kumar Meena

Visakhapatnam Mandals

Visakhapatnam Urban

Visakhapatnam Rural

Gajuwaka

Pendurthi

Padmanabham

Paravada

Pedagantyada

Sabbavaram

Seethammadhara

Maharanipeta

Gopalapatnam

Mulagada

Anakapalle

Bheemunipatnam

Anandapuram

Butchayyapeta

Cheedikada

Chodavaram

Deverapalle

K Kotapadu

Kasimkota

Madugula

Munagapaka

Ravikamatham

Rolugunta

Achutapuram

Golugonda

Kotauratla

Makavarapalem

Nakkapalle

Nathavaram

Narsipatnam

Payakaraopeta

Rambilli

S Rayavaram

Yelamanchili

Ananthagiri

Araku Valley

Chintapalle

Dumbriguda

Gudem Kotha Veedhi

Hukumpeta

Koyyuru

Munchingi Puttu

Paderu

Peda Bayalu

Assembly Constituencies in Visakhapatnam district

Visakhapatnam East

Visakhapatnam West

Visakhapatnam North

Visakhapatnam South

Gajuwaka

Anakapalle

Bheemili

Chodavaram

Yelamanchili

Madugula

Narsipatnam

Paderu

Pendurthi

Payakaraopet

Araku Valley

MLAs from Visakhapatnam district

Constituency	Candidate	Party
Visakhapatnam East	Velagapudi Ramakrishna Babu	Telugu Desam Party
Visakhapatnam South	Vasupalli Ganesh Kumar	Telugu Desam Party
Visakhapatnam West	PGVR Naidu	Telugu Desam Party
Visakhapatnam North	Ganta Srinivasa Rao	Telugu Desam Party
Pendurthi	Adeep Raj	YSR Congress Party
Bheemili	Muttamsetti Srinivas Rao	YSR Congress Party
Gajuwaka	Tippala Nagi Reddy	YSR Congress Party
Anakapalle	Amarnath Gudivada	YSR Congress Party
Araku	Chetti Palguna	YSR Congress Party
Narsipatnam	Petla Uma Sankar Ganesh	YSR Congress Party
Chodavaram	Dharmasri Karanam	YSR Congress Party
Payakaraopeta	Golla Babu Rao	YSR Congress Party
Madugula	Budi Muthyala Naidu	YSR Congress Party
Yelamanchili	Uppalapati Venkata Ramana Murthy Raju	YSR Congress Party
Paderu	Bhagyalakshmi	YSR Congress Party

Lok Sabha Constituencies

Anakapalle

Araku

Visakhapatnam

MPs from Visakhapatnam district

Constituency	Candidate	Party
Visakhapatnam	MVV Satyanarayana	YSRCP
Araku	Goddeti Madhavi	YSRCP
Anakapalle	Besetti Venkata Satyavathi	YSRCP