List of districts of Madhya Pradesh

The Indian State of Madhya Pradesh came into existence on 1 November 1956. Madhya Pradesh has various regions which have no official administrative governmental status but they are purely geographic regions; some correspond to historic countries, states or provinces. Currently, the number of districts in the state is 52. These districts are grouped into ten administrative divisions. The regions and district in Madhya Pradesh is shown below. In 2000, the state broke up into two, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.

Regions

Agro-climatically, geographically, historically, and according to political sentiments, Madhya Pradesh has following main regions :

Kaimur Plateau and Satpura Hills
Vindhyan Plateau (Hills)
Narmada valley
Wainganga valley
Mahakoshal Region
Gird (Gwalior) Region
Baghelkhand Region
Bundelkhand Region
Satpura Plateau (Hills)
Malwa Plateau
Nimar Plateau
Jhabua Hills

List of districts

There are 52 districts in Madhya Pradesh divided in ten divisions.

Code	Division	District	Headquarters	Area (sq.km.)	Population (2011)	Population density (per sq.km)
BP	Bhopal	Bhopal	Bhopal	2,772	2,371,061	855
RS		Raisen	Raisen	8,446	1,331,597	158
RG		Rajgarh	Rajgarh	6,154	1,545,814	251
SR		Sehore	Sehore	6,578	1,311,332	199
VI		Vidisha	Vidisha	7,371	1,458,875	198
MO	Chambal	Morena	Morena	4,991	1,965,970	394
SP		Sheopur	Sheopur	6,585	687,861	104
BD		Bhind	Bhind	4,459	1,703,005	382
GW	Gwalior	Gwalior	Gwalior	5,214	2,032,036	390
AS		Ashoknagar	Ashoknagar	4,674	845,071	181
SV		Shivpuri	Shivpuri	10,278	1,726,050	168
DT		Datia	Datia	2,038	786,754	386
GU		Guna	Guna	6,485	1,241,519	191
AL	Indore	Alirajpur	Alirajpur	3,182	728,999	229
BR		Barwani	Barwani	5,432	1,385,881	255
BU		Burhanpur	Burhanpur	2,473	757,847	306
IN		Indore