List of districts of Telangana

The Indian state of Telangana has 33 districts, each headed by a District collector.

History

Telangana region of Hyderabad State consisted of 8 Districts in 1948 when it was inducted in Dominion of India; they are Hyderabad, Mahbubnagar, Medak, Nalgonda, Nizamabad, Adilabad, Karimnagar and Warangal districts. Khammam district was created by bifurcation of Warangal district on 1 October 1953. Andhra Pradesh was formed by merging Telangana region of Hyderabad State and Andhra state on 1 November 1956. Bhadrachalam division and Aswaraopet taluka parts was merged in Khammam district from Godavari districts for better Administration. Hyderabad district was split into Hyderabad Urban District and Hyderabad Rural District on 15 August 1978. Hyderabad Urban District was made by 4 Talukas are Charminar, Golkonda, Mushirabad and Secunderabad Talukas which consist of only MCH area, Secunderabad cantonment and Osmania University. Hyderabad rural district was later renamed as Ranga Reddy District.
Telangana was carved out with 10 districts from Andhra Pradesh. Seven mandals of Bhadrachalam division were given back to East Godavari district. 21 new districts were created on 11 October 2016, which led to 31 districts in Telangana. All districts were divided into minimum 2 to maximum 5 except Hyderabad district which was untouched. Two new districts, Mulugu and Narayanpet were created on 17 February 2019, taking the total number of districts to 33.

District statistics

In terms of area, Bhadradri Kothagudem is the largest district with an area of and Hyderabad is the smallest with. Hyderabad district is the most populated district with a population of 39,43,323 and Mulugu district is the least populated with 2,94,671. Telangana consist of 74 Revenue Divisions and 594 Revenue Mandals.

S.No.	Name	Headquarters	Area	Population	No.of mandals	Density	Urban	Literacy	Sex ratio	Map
1	Adilabad	Adilabad	4,153		18	171	23.66	63.46	978
2	Kumuram Bheem Asifabad	Asifabad	4,878		15	106	16.86	56.72	998
3	Mancherial	Mancherial	4,016		18	201	43.85	64.35	977
4	Nirmal	Nirmal	3,845		19	185	21.38	57.77	1046
5	Nizamabad	Nizamabad	4,288		27	366	29.58	64.25	1044
6	Jagtial	Jagtial	2,419		18	407	22.46	60.26	1036
7	Peddapalli	Peddapalli	2,236		14	356	38.22	65.52	992
8	Kamareddy	Kamareddy	3,652		22	266	12.71	56.51	1033
9	Rajanna Sircilla	Sircilla	2,019		13	273	21.17	62.71	1014
10	Karimnagar	Karimnagar	2,128		16	473	30.72	69.16	993
11	Jayashankar Bhupalpally	Bhupalpally	2,293	416,763	12	180	7.57	58.97	1009
12	Sangareddy	Sangareddy	4,403		26	347	34.69	64.08	965
13	Medak	Medak	2,786		20	275	7.67	56.12	1027
14	Siddipet	Siddipet	3,632		22	279	13.74	61.61	1008
15	Jangaon	Jangaon	2,188		13	259	12.60	61.60	997
16	Hanumakonda	Hanumakonda	1,309		11	826	68.51	76.17	997
17	Warangal	Warangal	2,175		15	330	6.99	61.26	994
18	Mulugu	Mulugu	3,881	257,744	09	66	05	62.26	968
19	Bhadradri kothagudem	Kothagudem	7,483		23	143	31.71	66.40	1008
20	Khammam	Khammam	4,361		21	321	22.60	65.95	1005
21	Mahabubabad	Mahabubabad	2,877		16	269	9.86	57.13	996
22	Suryapet	Suryapet	3,607		23	305	15.56	64.11	996
23	Nalgonda	Nalgonda	7,122		31	227	22.76	63.75	978
24	Yadadri Bhuvanagiri	Bhuvanagiri	3,092		16	239	16.66	65.2402221	973
25	Medchal–Malkajgiri	Shamirpet	1,084		14	2251	91.40	82.48	957
26	Hyderabad	Hyderabad	217		16	18172	100	83.25	954
27	Ranga Reddy	Shamshabad	5,031		27	486	58.05	71.88	950
28	Vikarabad	Vikarabad	3,386		18	274	13.48	57.91	1001
29	Narayanpet	Narayanpet	2336	566,874	11	240	7.36	49.93	1009
30	Mahabubnagar	Mahabubnagar	2,738	919,903	26	340	20.73	60.97	995
31	Nagarkurnool	Nagarkurnool	6,545		22	142	10.19	54.38	968
32	Wanaparthy	Wanaparthy	2,152		14	268	15.97	55.67	960
33	Jogulamba Gadwal	Gadwal	2,928		12	208	10.36	49.87	972
Total	–	–			584	312	38.88	66.54	988	–