List of districts in India

A district (zila), also known as revenue district 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 788 districts in India.

District Administration

 * The District officials include:
 * District & Sessions Judge (Principal & additional), an officer belonging to the Indian Judicial Service (state), responsible for justice and passing orders of imprisonment, including the death penalty and also have limited administrative power. Also have appellate jurisdiction over all subordinate courts in the district for both civil and criminal matters.
 * 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. Superintendent of Police is incharge of the police administration of the respective police district. The police district is either coterminous with the revenue district or divided into two within the revenue district.
 * 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
 * Other district-level officials of respective state government departments, such as the District Educational Officer, District Medical Officer, District Supply Officer, District Fire Officer, District Development Commissioner, etc.

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.

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.

Districts sharing their name with another district in India

 * Aurangabad district, Bihar and Aurangabad district, Maharashtra
 * Balrampur district, Chhattisgarh and Balrampur district, Uttar Pradesh
 * Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh and Bijapur district, Karnataka
 * 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.