


Prakasam district was created out of parts of Guntur district, Sri Potti Sriramulu Nellore district and Kurnool district in 1970.Anantapur, Chittoor, East Godavari, Guntur, Kadapa, Krishna, Kurnool, Nellore, Prakasam, Srikakulam, Visakhapatnam and West Godavari.Andhra Pradesh while formation had 11 districts.

On 1 November 1956, Andhra State and the Telangana region of Hyderabad State were merged to form the united Andhra State and was renamed as Andhra Pradesh. Īs a result of the 1956 States Reorganisation Act, the state's boundaries were re-organized following linguistic lines. Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema were separated from Madras state to form Andhra State in 1953. At the time of Independence the present day Andhra Pradesh was a part of Madras State.
