List of districts of Madhya Pradesh

The Indian state of Madhya Pradesh came into existence on 1 November 1956. Madhya Pradesh has various geographic regions which have no official administrative governmental status; some correspond to historic countries, states or provinces. Currently, the number of districts in the state is 55.^[1] and Of these Mauganj, Pandhurna & Maihar are newly created districts. 2 districts, Chachaura and Nagda are also proposed which was approved by state cabinet on 18th March 2020. These 55 districts are grouped into 10 administrative divisions. Districts are subdivided into tehsils, of which there are 428 in Madhya Pradesh.

  Chambal division

  Gwalior division

  Bhopal division

  Ujjain division

  Indore division

  Narmadapuram division

  Sagar division

  Rewa division

  Shahdol division

  Jabalpur division

List of districts

There are 55 districts in Madhya Pradesh, categorized into ten divisions.^[2][3]

District	Code[4]	Headquarters	Division	Area (km2)[5]	Population (2011)[5]	Population density (per km2)	Location Map
Bhopal	BP	Bhopal	Bhopal division	2,772	2,371,061	855
Raisen	RS	Raisen		8,446	1,331,597	158
Rajgarh	RG	Rajgarh		6,154	1,545,814	251
Sehore	SR	Sehore		6,578	1,311,332	199
Vidisha	VI	Vidisha		7,371	1,458,875	198
Morena	MO	Morena	Chambal	4,991	1,965,970	394
Sheopur	SP	Sheopur		6,585	687,861	104
Bhind	BD	Bhind		4,459	1,703,005	382
Gwalior	GW	Gwalior	Gwalior	5,214	2,032,036	390
Ashoknagar	AS	Ashoknagar		4,674	845,071	181
Shivpuri	SV	Shivpuri		10,278	1,726,050	168
Datia	DT	Datia		2,038	786,754	386
Guna	GU	Guna		6,485	1,241,519	191
Alirajpur	AL	Alirajpur	Indore	3,182	728,999	229
Barwani	BR	Barwani		5,432	1,385,881	255
Burhanpur	BU	Burhanpur		2,473	757,847	306
Indore	IN	Indore		3,898	3,276,697	841
Dhar	DH	Dhar		8,153	2,185,793	268
Jhabua	JH	Jhabua		6,782	1,025,048	151
Khandwa	EN[a]	Khandwa		4,927	1,310,061	262
Khargone	WN[b]	Khargone		4,927	1,873,046	262
Balaghat	BL	Balaghat	Jabalpur	9,229	1,701,698	184
Chhindwara	CN	Chhindwara		10,293	1,716,612	177
Jabalpur	JA	Jabalpur		5,210	2,463,289	473
Katni	KA	Katni		4,927	1,292,042	262
Mandla	ML	Mandla		5,805	1,054,905	182
Narsinghpur	NA	Narsinghpur		5,133	1,091,854	213
Seoni	SO	Seoni		8,758	1,379,131	157
Dindori	DI	Dindori		7,427	704,524	95
Pandhurna	PD	Pandhurna		1,522	374,310	246
Betul	BE	Betul	Narmadapuram	10,043	1,575,362	157
Harda	HA	Harda		3,339	570,465	171
Narmadapuram	NA	Narmadapuram		6,698	1,241,350	185
Rewa	RE	Rewa	Rewa	6,434	1,748,461	368
Satna	ST	Satna		7,502	2,228,935	297
Sidhi	SI	Sidhi		4,851	1,127,033	230
Singrauli	SH	Waidhan		5,672	1,178,273	208
Mauganj	MG	Mauganj		1,866	616,645	331
Maihar	MH	Maihar		2,722.79	856,028	314
Chhatarpur	CT	Chhatarpur	Sagar	8,687	1,762,375	203
Damoh	DM	Damoh		7,306	1,264,219	173
Panna	PA	Panna		7,135	1,016,520	142
Sagar	SG	Sagar		10,252	2,378,458	232
Tikamgarh	TI	Tikamgarh		3,878	1,040,359	268
Niwari	NI	Niwari		1,170	404,807	346
Anuppur	AP	Anuppur	Shahdol	3,746	749,237	200
Shahdol	SH	Shahdol		6,205	1,066,063	172
Umaria	UM	Umaria		4,026	644,758	160
Agar Malwa	AG	Agar Malwa	Ujjain	2,785	571,275	205
Dewas	DE	Dewas		7,020	1,563,715	223
Mandsaur	MS	Mandsaur		5,530	1,340,411	242
Neemuch	NE	Neemuch		4,267	826,067	194
Ratlam	RL	Ratlam		4,861	1,455,069	299
Shajapur	SJ	Shajapur		3,460	941,403	272
Ujjain	UJ	Ujjain		6,091	1,986,864	326

Proposed districts

A bill giving in-principle approval to the creation of three districts was passed on 18 March 2020. The following districts would be created:^[6]

• Chachaura district (Guna)
• Nagda district (Ujjain)
• Maihar district (satna) {created in 2023}

Announced by state government during election in 2023-24 :

• Pichhore District (Shivpuri)
• Junnardeo district (Chhindwara)

There is demand of districts from various regions like:

• Barwaha district (Khargone)
• Jaora district (Ratlam)
• Garoth district (Mandsaur)
• Manawar District (Dhar)
• Ganj Basoda district (Vidisha)
• Sironj district (Vidisha)
• Gadarwara district (Narsinghpur)
• Lakhnadon district (Seoni)
• Gohad district (Bhind)
• Dabra District, (Gwalior)
• Sihora District^[7] (Jabalpur)
• Bina district, (Sagar)
• Khurai District, (Sagar)
• Shahgarh District, (Sagar)
• Chitrakoot district,Madhya Pradesh (Satna)
• Bagli District, (Dewas)
• Pipariya district (Hoshangabad)
• Bijawar District ,(Chhatarpur))
• Laundi District, (Chhatarpur)
• Beohari District, (Shahdol)^[8]

Notes

1. It was previously known as East Nimar
2. It was previously known as West Nimar