Kakinada Urban mandal is one of the 21

mandal A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluk, or taluka () is a local unit of administrative division in India and Pakistan. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administrative c ...

s in

Kakinada district Kakinada district is a district in the Coastal Andhra Region in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. With Kakinada as its administrative headquarters, it was proposed on 26 January 2022 to become one of the resultant twenty six districts in the ...

of the state of

Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (ISO 15919, ISO: , , AP) is a States and union territories of India, state on the East Coast of India, east coast of southern India. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, seventh-largest state and th ...

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. It has its headquarters at

Kakinada Kakinada (; formerly known as Cocanada) is a Port, port city and municipal corporation in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Situated along the Bay of Bengal, it serves as the headquarters of Kakinada district and is a prominent economic and c ...

city, that covers the entire mandal. The mandal is surrounded by Kakinada (rural) mandal and lies on the coast of

Bay of Bengal The Bay of Bengal is the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean. Geographically it is positioned between the Indian subcontinent and the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese peninsula, located below the Bengal region. Many South Asian and Southe ...

Demographics

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, the mandal had a population of 312,538. The total population constitute, 152,571 males and 159,967 females —a sex ratio of 1049 females per 1000 males. 29,698 children are in the age group of 0–6 years, of which 15,041 are boys and 14,657 are girls —a ratio of 975 per 1000. The average literacy rate stands at 80.62% with 228,034 literates.

Towns and villages

Kakinada (urban) mandal consists of only one town of

and has no villages and hence, it is a fully urban mandal.

References

{{Kakinada district Mandals in Kakinada district Mandals in Andhra Pradesh