Jogulamba Gadwal district

Jogulamba Gadwal district is a district in the Indian state of Telangana. The administrative headquarters of the district is located at Gadwal. The district shares boundaries with Narayanpet, Wanaparthy districts and with the state boundary of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. The district was carved out from Mahabubnagar district in 2016.

The district is spread over an area of 2928 km2. the 2011 Census of India, the area within the district had a population of 609,990.

Administrative divisions
The district has one revenue division, Gadwal, and is sub-divided into 12 mandals.

Demographics
The district has a population of 6,09,990 of which 3,09,274 are males and 3,00,716 females for a sex ratio of 972 females per 1000 males. The literacy rate is 49.87%. Urban population is 63,177 (10.36%). Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes made up 120,639 (19.77%) and 9376 (1.54%) of the population respectively.

At the time of the 2011 census, 90.09% of the population spoke Telugu and 7.49% Urdu as their first language.