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Madanapalle revenue division

revenue division in Annamayya district, Andhra Pradesh, India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ24945233 ↗
Source-derived summary

Madanapalle revenue division is an administrative division in the Annamayya district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is the largest and one of the 3 revenue divisions in the district with 11 mandals under its administration. Madanapalle serves as the headquarters of the Annamayya district and this division. The division has only three Municipalities they are Madanapalle,B.Kothakota,Punganur.

Administration

The details of the mandals and urban settlements in the division are:

History

The revenue division was originally a part of Chittoor district and was made part of the newly formed Annamayya district on 4 April 2022.

Editorial summary

“Madanapalle revenue division” enters the record as revenue division in Annamayya district, Andhra Pradesh, India. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Madanapalle, revenue and division can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Madanapalle revenue division” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.