New Delhi district
district of Delhi in India
New Delhi district is an administrative district of Delhi in India. Its district headquarters is New Delhi. It is named after New Delhi, the capital of India, located within its borders, and is in its entirety a part of the Delhi megacity. The district was founded in 1997, but its borders significantly changed during the redrawing of the Delhi districts in 2012.
Geography
The New Delhi district spans over all three municipalities of the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, namely New Delhi Municipal Council, the Delhi Cantonment and parts of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi area. It covers the centrally located Lutyens' Delhi and reaches all the way to the NCT's southwestern borders to Gurugram. As the other 10 districts of the NCT, it is subdivided into three tehsils: Chanakyapuri, Delhi Cantonment and Vasant Vihar.
History
The New Delhi district was founded in mid 1990s, when the former single district of the NCT was split into 9 districts. In its then borders, the district covered 35 km².
When the borders of the districts of Delhi were redrawn in 2012, the New Delhi district became significantly bigger, now spanning all the way to the border to the neighboring state of Haryana.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “New Delhi district” is district of Delhi in India. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Delhi, district and India, not as a finished interpretation.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q8560886. Authority coordinates are 28.563, 77.153. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1997 and 2012.
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This entry incorporates text from “New Delhi district” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.