the district has 7 revenue divisions namely, amalapuram, etapaka, kakinada, peddapuram, rajahmundry, ramachandrapuram and rampachodavaram with 64 mandals. these 64 mandals consists of 1,681 villages, 2 municipal corporations, 7 municipalities and 10 census towns. it is the one of the two districts, alongside chittoor district to possess two municipal corporations namely, kakinada and rajahmundry. the 7 municipalities in the district include, amalapuram, mandapeta, peddapuram, pithapuram, ramachandrapuram, samalkota, tuni. after the merger of dowleswaram, hukumpeta and katheru into rajahmundry municipal corporation, there exists 7 census towns of arempudi, bandarulanka, chidiga, morampudi, ramanayyapeta, rampachodavaram, suryaraopeta.