List of districts of Delhi

Delhi is divided into eleven revenue districts. Each district is headed by a District Magistrate and has three subdivisions. A Subdivision Magistrate heads each subdivision.

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, taking the total count to 11.

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:

The skyline of Central Delhi

The South Block in New Delhi houses the Indian defence and finance ministries.

New List of Districts in National Capital Territory of Delhi

Sl.No.	District	Headquarter	Sub divisions (Tehsils)
1	New Delhi	Connaught Place	Chanakyapuri	Delhi Cantonment	Vasant Vihar
2	North West Delhi	Kanjhawala	Rohini	Kanjhawala	Saraswati Vihar
3	North Delhi	Narela	Model Town	Narela	Alipur
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

Sl.No.	District	Headquarters	Area (km2)	Population Census 2011	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	Gandhi 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, Nangal Raya, 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
9	West Delhi	Rajouri Garden	130.56	2,531,583	2,128,908	1,433,038	Patel Nagar	Punjabi Bagh	Rajouri Garden
	Total		1483.0	16,753,235	13,850,507	9,420,644