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Districts of Gujarat


The western Indian state of Gujarat has 33 districts after several splits of the original 17 districts at the formation of the state in 1960.

Kutch is the largest district of Gujarat while Dang is the smallest. Ahmedabad district has the highest population while Dang has the lowest. Surat is the most densely populated district while Kutch is the least.

There are 249 Talukas (subdivisions of districts) in Gujarat.


Gujarat state was created on 1 May 1960 out of the 17 northern districts of Bombay State when that was split on a linguistic basis (also creating Marthi-speaking Maharashtra).

They are as follow : Ahmedabad, Amreli, Banaskantha, Bharuch, Bhavnagar, Dang, Jamnagar, Junagadh, Kheda, Kachchh, Mehsana, Panchmahal, Rajkot, Sabarkantha, Surat, Surendranagar and Vadodara.

In 1964 Gandhinagar was formed from parts of Ahmedabad and Mehsana


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