Andhra Pradesh Photos
Friday, July 12, 2013
Andhra Pradesh State
Andhra Pradesh is one of the 28 states of India, situated
on the country's southeastern coast. It is India's 4th largest
state by area and fifth largest by population. Andhra Pradesh is bordered by
Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and Orissa in the north, the Bay
of Bengal in the east, Tamil Nadu to the south and Karnataka to
the west.
In the year 1956, November 1st based on States
Reorganisation Act Andhra Pradesh was formed by merging Telugu-speaking areas
of Andhra State
with the already existing Hyderabad
State. The Marathi speaking areas of Hyderabad State
merged with Bombay State and Kannada speaking areas were merged with Mysore State.
Andhra Pradesh has the second-longest coastline of 972 km
(604 mi) among the states of India.
Two major rivers, the Godavari and the Krishna,
run across the state. The small enclave (30 square kilometres (12 sq mi)) of
Yanam, a district of Pondicherry, lies in the Godavari
delta in the northeast of the state. The state comprises three regions:
Telangana, Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema. The state's most populous cities in
Andhra Pradesh are Hyderabad,
Visakhapatnam, Guntur,
Vijayawada, Rajahmundry,
Warangal and Nellore according to 2011 census.
The primary official language of Andhra Pradesh is Telugu
and the co-official language is Urdu. Other languages often spoken in the state
include Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Kannada and Oriya.
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