New districts of Andhra Pradesh (1953–1979)

Unified Andhra Pradesh (pre-2014)
Present-day state borders, for orientation

The districts formed in the Telugu country between 1953 and 1979. Khammam was carved out of Warangal on 1 October 1953, and the Bhadrachalam taluk was moved to it from East Godavari in 1959. Prakasam was formed on 2 February 1970 from parts of Guntur, Nellore and Kurnool. Vizianagaram was formed from parts of Srikakulam and Visakhapatnam, and Rangareddi from the rural areas of Hyderabad district, at the end of the 1970s. The census of 1981 counted 23 districts. Only towns are marked; the base map has no district boundaries.

Base map: Natural Earth (opens in a new tab) (public domain).

Sources

S. S. Jaya Rao (Census of India 1981), Census of India 1981, Andhra Pradesh: District Census Handbook, Khammam District (opens in a new tab), Director of Census Operations, Andhra Pradesh, 1986, PDF pp. 17, 21. [All rights reserved (cited, not reproduced)]
N. Ramesan, Andhra Pradesh District Gazetteers: East Godavari (revised edition) (opens in a new tab), Government of Andhra Pradesh (Government Central Press, Hyderabad), 1979, pp. 2. [All rights reserved (cited, not reproduced)]
Ch. Purnachandra Rao (Census of India 1981), Census of India 1981, Andhra Pradesh: Portrait of Population (opens in a new tab), Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India, 1981, pp. 13, 16. [All rights reserved (cited, not reproduced)]
S. S. Jaya Rao (Census of India 1981), Census of India 1981, Andhra Pradesh: District Census Handbook, Rangareddi District (opens in a new tab), Director of Census Operations, Andhra Pradesh, 1987, PDF pp. 20, 24. [All rights reserved (cited, not reproduced)]