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Visakhapatnam is a city of South Indian State of Andhra Pradesh. old MCV is considered as the central part of city, East and Some Western Parts of city. Visakhapatnam city divided as North, South, central, East, West and suburbs of Northern, Southern and Western. [1] [2]
Visakhapatnam district is currently a part of the Red corridor. [14] On 3 April 2022, Government of Andhra Pradesh created 13 new districts in the state, hence the district was once again divided into three i.e., Visakhapatnam, Anakapalli and Alluri Sitharama Raju districts. This made Vizag the only district with 90% urban population in AP.
Under the jurisdiction of VMRDA, the Visakhapatnam Metropolitan Region (VMR), comprises, Visakhapatnam city and the districts Anakapalli, Vizianagaram and Visakhapatnam. [7] It is spread over an area of 7,328.86 km 2 (2,829.69 sq mi) and has a population of 40.7 lakhs according to 2011 census. [8] The below table list the urban areas of VMR:
The list is updated for cities wherever metropolitan area data is available with the corresponding sources. All population data correspond to the 2011 census. For regions that were expanded post-2011 and no updated population data is available, data corresponding to the old urban area limits as per the 2011 census has been considered. [3]
As per the 2011 Census of India, towns with population of 100,000 and above are called "cities". [1] Visakhapatnam is the most populated city, with a population of 2,278,000 after the merger of surrounding towns into Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (VMC) and it being upgraded to Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation .
City District(s) Area (km 2) Population (2011) No. of Wards Year Established Last Election Ruling Party Website 1 Anantapur Municipal Corporation: Anantapur: Anantapur: 15.98 262,340 50 1950 2021 YSRCP: 2 Chittoor Municipal Corporation: Chittoor: Chittoor: 95.97 189,000 50 2012 2021 YSRCP: 3 Eluru Municipal Corporation: Eluru: Eluru: 154 ...
As a result of the 1956 States Reorganisation Act, the state's boundaries were re-organized following linguistic lines. On 1 November 1956, the Andhra State and the Telangana region of the Hyderabad State were merged to form the Andhra Pradesh which is retrospectively referred to as United Andhra Pradesh .
The Visakhapatnam City Police was established in 1983. It is headed by a police commissioner and assisted by a joint police commissioner and includes two zones and 44 police stations. [8] Its police system is one of the oldest in India, celebrating its 160-year anniversary in 2021. [9]