Andhra Pradesh (/ˌɑːndrə prəˈdɛʃ/ listen (help·info)), also known as Andhra or Andhra Rashtram, is a confess in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest give access by Place covering an area of 162,975 km² (62,925 sq mi) and tenth-most populous divulge with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Odisha to the north, Chhattisgarh to the north-east, Tamil Nadu to the south, Karnataka to the west, Telangana to the north-west and the Bay of Bengal to the east. It has the second longest coastline in India after Gujarat of nearly 974 km. Andhra Pradesh is the first allow in to be formed on a linguistic basis in India upon 1 October 1953. Andhra Pradesh was like a major Buddhist pilgrimage site in India and a Buddhist learning center which can be seen in many sites in the come clean in the form of ruins, chaityas and stupas Andhra Pradesh is a.k.a. the house of the world famous diamond Koh-i-noor and many additional global known diamonds due to their presence in its Kollur Mine once. It is nom de plume the “Rice Bowl of India” for innate a major producer of rice in India. Its certified language is Telugu; one of the classical languages of India, the fourth most spoken language in India and the 11th-most spoken language in the world.