List of districts in India

List of districts in India
A district (zila) is an administrative division of an Indian state or territory. In some cases, districts are further subdivided into sub-divisions, and in others directly into tehsils or talukas. , there are a total of 766 districts, up from the 640 in the 2011 Census of India and the 593 recorded in the 2001 Census of India.
District officials include:
District Magistrate or Deputy Commissioner or District Collector, an officer of the Indian Administrative Service, in charge of administration and revenue collection
Superintendent of Police or Senior Superintendent of Police or Deputy Commissioner of Police, an officer belonging to the Indian Police Service, responsible for maintaining law and order
Deputy Conservator of Forests, an officer belonging to the Indian Forest Service, entrusted with the management of the forests, environment and wildlife of the district
Each of these officials is aided by officers from the appropriate branch of the state government.
Most districts have a distinct headquarters; but the districts of Mumbai City in Maharashtra, Kolkata in West Bengal, Hyderabad in Telangana, and Chennai in Tamil Nadu are examples where there are no distinct district headquarters, although there are district collectors.
Overview
Naming
The majority of districts are named after their administrative centre. Some are referred to by two names, a traditional one and one that uses the name of the town that is the headquarters. Since most of the districts are named after a town, the word "district" is appended to distinguish between the town and the district.
Similar names
Districts sharing their name with another district in India
Aurangabad district, Bihar and Aurangabad district, Maharashtra
Balrampur district, Chhattisgarh and Balrampur district, Uttar Pradesh
Bilaspur district, Chhattisgarh and Bilaspur district, Himachal Pradesh
Hamirpur district, Himachal Pradesh and Hamirpur district, Uttar Pradesh
Pratapgarh district, Rajasthan and Pratapgarh district, Uttar Pradesh
Raigarh district, Chhattisgarh and Raigad district, Maharashtra
Districts sharing their name with a district in a neighbouring country in South Asia
Bhojpur district, Bihar shares a name with Bhojpur District, Nepal
Daman district, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu shares a name with Daman District, Afghanistan
Dang district, Gujarat shares a name with Dang District, Nepal
Ghaziabad district, Uttar Pradesh shares a name with Ghaziabad District, Afghanistan
Gopalganj district, Bihar shares a name with Gopalganj District, Bangladesh
Hyderabad district, Telangana shares a name with Hyderabad District, Pakistan
Lalitpur district, Uttar Pradesh shares a name with Lalitpur District, Nepal
Poonch district, Jammu and Kashmir, shares a name with Poonch District, Pakistan (the two were, prior to Partition, one district – which got split by the Line of Control, since then the two parts have been administered separately)
Districts sharing names with those outside of South Asia entirely
Dhar district, Madhya Pradesh, with Dhar District, Yemen
Banda district, Uttar Pradesh with Banda District, Republic of the Congo and Banda District, Ghana
Mansa district, Punjab, with Mansa District, Zambia.
Salem district, Tamil Nadu with Salem, Massachusetts, United States and Salem, Oregon, United States
Indore district, Madhya Pradesh with Indore, West Virginia
States
The following tables list the population details of various states. The columns include the hierarchical administrative subdivision codes, the district name, district headquarters, 2011 census population, area in square kilometres, and the population density per square kilometre.
Andhra Pradesh (AP)
Arunachal Pradesh (AR)
Assam (AS)
Bihar (BR)
Chhattisgarh (CG)
Goa (GA)
Gujarat (GJ)
Haryana (HR)
Himachal Pradesh (HP)
Jharkhand (JH)
Karnataka (KA)
Kerala (KL)
Madhya Pradesh (MP)
Maharashtra (MH)
Manipur (MN)
Meghalaya (ML)
Mizoram (MZ)
Nagaland (NL)
Odisha (OD)
Punjab (PB)
Rajasthan (RJ)
Sikkim (SK)
Tamil Nadu (TN)
Telangana (TS)
Tripura (TR)
Uttar Pradesh (UP)
Uttarakhand (UK)
West Bengal (WB)
Union territories
Andaman and Nicobar (AN)
Chandigarh (CH)
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (DD)
Jammu and Kashmir (JK)
Ladakh (LA)
Lakshadweep (LD)
National Capital Territory of Delhi (DL)
Puducherry (PY)
See also
Administrative divisions of India
Municipalities of India
Districts of British India
Footnotes
References
External links
Districts of India, Indian Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology website
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Districts, India
Districts of India