List of districts in Telangana - wikipedia List of districts in Telangana Location of Telangana in India The state of Telangana, in southern India is divided into 31 districts. A ' district ' in the state of Telangana is an administrative geographical unit, headed by a District collector, an officer belonging to the Indian Administrative Service. Contents 1 Statistics 2 History 2.1 1948 2.2 1953 2.3 1956 2.4 1978 2.5 2014 2.6 2016 3 District statistics 4 See also 5 References 6 External links Statistics Telangana new districts created in 2016 In terms of area, Bhadradri Kothagudem is the largest district with an area of 7,483 km ( 2,889 sq mi ) and Hyderabad is the smallest with 217 km ( 84 sq mi ). Hyderabad district is the most populated district with a population of 3943323 and Kumarambheem Asifabad district is the least populated with 515,805. Telangana consist of 68 Revenue Divisions and 584 Revenue Mandals ( Tehsil ). History Hyderabad state until 1956 Telangana at the time of formation on June 02 2014 1948 Telangana region of Hyderabad State was consist of 8 Districts in 1948 when it inducted in Dominion of India they are Atraf - i - Baldah ( Hyderabad ), Mahbubnagar district, Medak district, Nalgonda district ( Nalgundah ), Nizamabad districts, Adilabad, Karimnagar, and Warangal districts. 1953 Khamam district was creating by bifurcation of Warangal district on 1st October 1953. 1956 Andhara Pradesh was fromed by merging Telangana region of Hyderabad State and Andhra state on November 1st. Bhadrachalam division and Aswaraopet taluka parts was merged in Khammam district from Godavari districts for better Administration. 1978. Hyderabad district was split into Hyderabad Urban District and Hyderabad Rural District on 15th 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. 2014 Telangana curved out from with 10 dristrict from Andhara Pradesh. 7 mandals of Bhadrachalam division was given back to East Godavari district. 2016 21 New districts were created on 11th October, which lead to 31 districts in Telangana. All districts were divided in to minmum 3 to maximum 5 except Hyderabad district which was untouched. District statistics S.No. Name Headquarters Area ( km ) Population ( 2011 census ) No. of mandals Density ( per km ) Urban ( % ) Literacy ( % ) Sex Ratio Adilabad Adilabad 4,153 708,972 18 171 23.66 63.46 989 Bhadradri Kothagudem Kothagudem 7,483 1,069,261 23 143 31.71 66.40 1008 Hyderabad Hyderabad 217 3,943,323 16 18172 100 83.25 954 Jagtial Jagtial 2,419 985,417 18 407 22.46 60.26 1036 5 Jangaon Jangaon 2,188 566,376 13 259 12.60 61.44 997 6 Jayashankar Bhupalapally Bhupalpalle 6,175 711,434 20 115 7.57 60.33 1009 7 Jogulamba Gadwal Gadwal 2,928 609,990 12 208 10.36 49.87 972 8 Kamareddy Kamareddy 3,652 972,625 22 266 12.71 56.51 1033 9 Karimnagar Karimnagar 2,128 1,005,711 16 473 30.72 69.16 993 10 Khammam Khammam 4,361 1,401,639 21 321 22.60 65.95 1005 11 Kumarambheem Asifabad Asifabad 4,878 515,812 15 106 16.86 56.72 998 12 Mahabubabad Mahabubabad 2,877 774,549 16 269 9.86 57.13 996 13 Mahabubnagar Mahabubnagar 5,285 1,486,777 26 281 20.73 56.78 995 14 Mancherial Mancherial 4,016 807,037 18 201 43.85 64.35 977 15 Medak Medak 2,786 767,428 20 275 7.67 56.12 1027 16 Medchal -- Malkajgiri Shamirpet 1,084 2,440,073 14 2251 91.40 82.49 957 17 Nagarkurnool Nagarkurnool 6,924 861,766 20 124 10.19 54.38 968 18 Nalgonda Nalgonda 7,122 1,618,416 31 227 22.76 63.75 978 19 Nirmal Nirmal 3,845 709,418 19 185 21.38 57.77 1046 20 Nizamabad Nizamabad 4,288 1,571,022 27 366 29.58 64.25 1044 21 Peddapalli Peddapalli 2,236 795,332 14 356 38.22 65.52 992 22 Rajanna Sircilla Sircilla 2,019 552,037 13 273 21.17 62.71 1014 23 Ranga Reddy Shamshabad 5,031 2,446,265 27 486 58.05 71.95 950 24 Sangareddy Sangareddy 4,403 1,527,628 26 347 34.69 64.08 965 25 Siddipet Siddipet 3,632 1,012,065 22 279 13.74 61.61 1008 26 Suryapet Suryapet 3,607 1,099,560 23 305 15.56 64.11 996 27 Vikarabad Vikarabad 3,386 927,140 18 274 13.48 57.91 1001 28 Wanaparthy Wanaparthy 2,152 577,758 14 268 15.97 55.67 960 29 Warangal Rural Warangal 2,175 718,537 15 330 6.99 61.26 994 30 Warangal Urban Warangal 1,309 1,080,858 11 826 68.51 76.17 997 31 Yadadri Bhuvanagiri Bhongir 3,092 739,448 16 239 16.66 65.53 973 Telangana - - 112,077 35,003,674 584 312 38.88 66.54 988 See also List of mandals in Telangana List of districts in India New Districts portal References Jump up ^ ( 1 ) Jump up ^ Yazdani, Ghulam. `` Hyderabad State ''. Atlantic Publishers & Distri -- via Google Books. ^ Jump up to : `` Know Your Corporation ''. Jump up ^ Law, Gwillim ( 2011 - 09 - 25 ). `` Districts of India ''. Statoids. Retrieved 2011 - 10 - 11. Jump up ^ `` The Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation ( Amendment ) Bill, 2014 '' Accessed 13 July 2014 ( 2 ) Jump up ^ `` Protests against Centre, Andhra Pradesh in Khammam over Polavaram Bill ''. Deccan Chronicle, 12 July 2014. Accessed 13 July 2014. ( 3 ) Jump up ^ `` New districts ''. Andhra Jyothy.com. 8 October 2016. Retrieved 8 October 2016. Jump up ^ `` Medchal - Malkajgiri district '' ( PDF ). Official website of Medchal district. Retrieved 20 March 2017. Jump up ^ `` Vikarabad district ''. Official website Vikarabad district. Retrieved 31 March 2017. 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