Tenders of Mata Sh Brajeshwari Devi Temple in Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh is a state located in south-eastern coastal region of India that is seventh largest state in terms of area I.e. 162,975 ( 62,925 sq mi). Also, it is the tenth most populous state having 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to the north-west, Chhattisgarh to the north, Odisha to the north-east, Tamil Nadu to the south, Karnataka to the west and the Bay of Bengal to the east. It has the second longest coastline in India after Gujarat, of about 974 km The state was the first one to be formed on a linguistic basis in India on 1 October 1953. On 1 November 1956, Andhra State was merged with the Telugu-speaking areas of the Hyderabad State to form Andhra Pradesh. Amaravati serves as the capital with the largest city being Visakhapatnam. It has a total of 26 districts, twelve in Coastal Andhra region, six in Uttarandhra and eight in the Rayalaseema region.