List of districts of Jammu and Kashmir 2023

List of districts of Jammu and Kashmir 2023

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List of districts of Jammu and Kashmir 2023:- There are two divisions in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir: Jammu and Kashmir Divisions, and it is further subdivided into twenty districts by combining several districts

History of Jammu and Kashmir 2023

Kashmir was a princely state ruled by the British Indian Empire prior to 1947. Administratively, the princely state’s central region was divided into the two provinces of Jammu and Kashmir. Frontier districts and semi-autonomous jagirs (principalities) were also present. The following were their divisions:

• Kashmiri state: Srinagar, Anantnag, Baramulla, and Muzaffarabad districts. Azad Kashmir later acquired Muzzafarabad.)
• Jagirs inside: Poonch (a big part of it later turned out to be essential for Azad Kashmir), Chenani and Bhaderwah
• Jammu area: Jammu, Udhampur, and Mirpur districts (which later became part of Azad Kashmir)
• Regions in the frontier:
  • District of Ladakh with three sub-districts: Leh, Kargil, and Skardu (Skardu was later included in Gilgit-Baltistan).
  • District of Gilgit with two subdivisions: Astore and Gilgit. Later, Gilgit-Baltistan incorporated both.)
  • Punial, Ishkoman, Yasin, Kuh Ghizar, Hunza, Nagar, and Chilas are examples of frontier ilaqas. These districts later turned out to be essential for Gilgit-Baltistan.)

Prior to the Partition of India, the Gilgit district and frontier ilaqas were returned to the princely state under British administration as the Gilgit Agency.

Jammu and Kashmir Partition

After the segment of India and the ensuing freedom of India and Pakistan, in October 1947, following a resistance combined with an ancestral intrusion from recently autonomous Pakistan, the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir consented to India as a trade-off for equipped help. The First Kashmir War, fought by India and Pakistan from 1948 to 1948, saw Pakistan take control of large portions of the three western districts of Mirpur, Poonch, and Muzaffarabad, the entire Gilgit Agency, and the Skardu sub-district of Ladakh. The remaining princely state was organized as a separate Indian state and given the name Jammu and Kashmir.

Inside India

The following areas are under Indian control: 

• Jammu Division: districts of Reasi, Kathua, Jammu, and Udhampur; the jagirs of Bhaderwah and Chenani; 41% of the Poonch jagir and 11% of the Mirpur district are covered by this.
• Division of Kashmir: Anantnag in the south and Baramulla in the north of Kashmir; 13% of the Muzaffarabad area.
• Ladakh Subregion: Leh and Kargil districts. On October 31, 2019, it became the union territory of Ladakh.)

By 1968, the districts had been reorganized, and some of the larger districts had been broken up. In 2006, eight new districts were established: Kishtwar, Ramban, Reasi, Samba, Bandipora, Ganderbal, Kulgam, and Shopian.

In August 2019, both houses of the Indian Parliament approved the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act. The bill’s provisions created two new union territories for the state of Jammu and Kashmir; Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir (union territory) as of October 31, 2019.

Districts of Jammu and Kashmir

• Jammu Division

S. R. No.	Jammu District Population 2001 Census	Jammu District Headquarters	Jammu District Name	Jammu District Population 2011 Census	District Before 2007 Area(km2)	District After 2007 Area(km2) Area(sq miles)
1.	550,084	Kathua	Kathua district	615,711	2,651	2,502 966
2.	1,343,756	Jammu	Jammu district	1,526,406	3,097	2,342 904
3.	245,016	Samba	Samba district	318,611	new district	904 349
4.	475,068	Udhampur	Udhampur district	555,357	4,550	2,367  914
5.	268,441	Reasi	Reasi district	314,714	new district	1,719  664
6.	483,284	Rajouri	Rajouri district	619,266	2,630	2,630  1,015
7.	372,613	Poonch	Poonch district	476,820	1,674	1,674  646
8.	320,256	Doda	Doda district	409,576	11,691	2,625  1,014
9.	180,830	Ramban	Ramban district	283,313	new district	1,329 513
10.	190,843	Kishtwar	Kishtwar district	231,037	new district	7,737 2,987
Total for division	4,430,191	Jammu	–	5,350,811	26,293	26,293 10,152

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• Kashmir Division

Learn more about each state’s number of districts.

Indian States

Union Territories

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