NelloreDiaries 4.3

Sri Potti Sri Ramulu Nellore District
Location of Sri Potti Sri Ramulu Nellore District
in Andhra Pradesh and India

Country
India

State
Andhra Pradesh

District(s)
Sri Potti Sriramulu Nellore

Population
2,966,082 (2011)

Time zone
IST (UTC+05:30

For the city, see Nellore.
Sri Potti Sri Ramulu Nellore District (Telugu: శ్రీ పొట్టి శ్రీరాములు నెల్లూరు జిల్లా) is one of the 23 districts of Andhra Pradesh. Nellore is famous for high paddy field, and so it got its name from "Nelli". The population of the district was 2,966,082 of which 22.45% were urban as of 2011.

Nellore city is its administrative headquarters. The major towns in the district are Kavali, Gudur,Venkatagiri,Sullurpeta,Atmakur,Naidupeta and Kovur. It is bordered by the Bay of Bengal to the east, Chittoor and state of Tamilnadu to the South, Kadapa to the west, and Prakasam to the north.

It was earlier known as Nellore district. In 2008 June, the government of Andhra Pradesh officially renamed the district as Potti Sri Ramulu Nellore District after the name of freedom fighter from this district.