Wanaparthy district


Wanaparthy district is a district in the Indian state of Telangana. Its headquarters is Wanaparthy. The district shares boundaries with Gadwal, Mahabubnagar, Narayanpet, Nagarkurnool districts, as well as the state boundary of Andhra Pradesh.

Geography

The district is spread over an area of. Mahbubnagar district is situated in the north of this district, Nagarkurnool district in the east, Andhra Pradesh in the south and Jogulamba Gadwal district in the west.

Demographics

, the district has a population of 577,758. Wanaparthy has a sex ratio of 960 females per 1000 males and a literacy rate of 55.67%. 72,377 were under 6 years of age. 92,288 lived in urban areas. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes made up 93,182 and 46,062 of the population respectively.
At the time of the 2011 census, 87.03% of the population spoke Telugu, 6.53% Lambadi and 5.70% Urdu aspoke s their first language.

Administrative divisions

The district has one revenue division of Wanaparthy and is subdivided into 14 mandals. Tejas Nandlal Pawar is the present collector of the district. and Rakshitha K.Murthy is the present District Superintendent of Police Megha Reddy Tudi is the legislative leader of the Wanaparthy constituency. He won the 2023 general elections by a margin of 25,320 votes.

Mandals

The below table categorizes mandals into their respective revenue divisions in the district:
Sr No.Wanaparthy revenue division
1Amarchinta
2Atmakur
3Chinnambavi
4Ghanpur
5Gopalpeta
6Kothakota
7Madanapur
8Pangal
9Pebbair
10Peddamandadi
11Revally
12Srirangapur
13Veepanagandla
14Wanaparthy
15Yedula

Notable personalities