List of districts of Delhi

The initial nine districts came into existence from January 1997. Prior to that, there used to be only one district for whole of Delhi with district headquarters at Tis-Hazari. In September 2012, two new districts, viz. South East and Shahdara were added to the city's map,^[1]

The District Administration of Delhi is the enforcement department for all kinds of Government of Delhi and Central Government policies and exercises supervisory over numerous other functionaries of the Government. Below is the list of the districts and subdivisions of Delhi:

New List of Districts in National Capital Territory of Delhi^[2][edit]

Sl.No.	District	Headquarter	Sub divisions (Tehsils)
1	New Delhi	Connaught Place	Chanakyapuri	Delhi Cantonment	Vasant Vihar
2	North Delhi	Narela	Model Town[3]	Narela	Alipur
3	North West Delhi	Kanjhawala	Rohini	Kanjhawala	Saraswati Vihar
4	West Delhi	Rajouri Garden	Patel Nagar	Punjabi Bagh	Rajouri Garden
5	South West Delhi	Dwarka	Dwarka	Najafgarh	Kapashera
6	South Delhi	Saket	Saket	Hauz Khas	Mehrauli
7	South East Delhi	Defence Colony	Defence Colony	Kalkaji	Sarita Vihar
8	Central Delhi	Daryaganj	Kotwali	Civil Lines	Karol Bagh
9	North East Delhi	Seelampur	Seelampur	Yamuna Vihar	Karawal Nagar
10	Shahdara	Shahdara	Shahdara	Seemapuri	Vivek Vihar
11	East Delhi	Preet Vihar	Gandhi Nagar	Preet Vihar	Mayur Vihar

Old List of Districts in National Capital Territory of Delhi[edit]

Sl.No.	District	Headquarters	Area (km2)	Population Census 2011 [4]	Population Census 2001	Population Census 1991	Sub divisions
1	Central Delhi	Daryaganj	23.36	578,671	646,385	656,533	Daryaganj	Paharganj	Karol Bagh
2	North Delhi	Sadar Bazaar	58.92	883,418	781,525	686,654	Sadar Bazaar	Kotwali	Civil Lines
3	South Delhi	Saket	249.44	2,733,752	2,267,023	1,501,881	Kalkaji	Defence Colony	Hauz Khas
4	East Delhi	Preet Vihar	48.90	1,707,725	1,463,583	1,023,078	Pankaj Nagar	Preet Vihar	Vivek Vihar
5	North East Delhi	Shahdara	56.32	2,240,749	1,768,061	1,085,250	Shahdara	Naveen Shahdara	Rohtash Nagar
6	South West Delhi	Palam, Delhi	420.80	2,292,363	1,755,041	1,087,573	Vasant Vihar	Najafgarh	Delhi Cantonment
7	New Delhi	Connaught Place	34.95	133,713	179,112	168,669	Connaught Place	Parliament Street	Chanakyapuri
8	North West Delhi	Kanjhawala	442.84	3,651,261	2,860,869	1,777,968	Saraswati Vihar	Narela	Model Town[3]
9	West Delhi	Rajouri Garden	130.56	2,531,583	2,128,908	1,433,038	Patel Nagar	BTM Bagh	[I thik tech park Garden]]
	Total		1483.0	16,753,235	13,850,507	9,420,644

Municipal Corporations[edit]

Apart from these districts, there are five municipal corporations including one municipal council, and one Cantonment Board within the National Capital Territory:

• North Delhi Municipal Corporation - Old Districts of North Delhi and North West Delhi.
• South Delhi Municipal Corporation - Old Districts of South Delhi, West Delhi, Central Delhi (excluding Delhi Cantt).
• East Delhi Municipal Corporation - Old Districts of East Delhi, North East Delhi.
• New Delhi Municipal Council - administers the old New Delhi District.
• Delhi Cantonment - administers some part of old South West Delhi.