New Delhi district
The New Delhi district is an administrative district of Delhi in India.[2] 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,[3][4] but its borders significantly changed during the redrawing of the Delhi districts in 2012.[5]
Geography[edit]
The New Delhi district spans over all three municipalities of the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi,[6] namely New Delhi, 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.[7] As the other 10 districts of the NCT, it is subdivided into three tehsils: Chanakyapuri, Delhi Cantonment and Vasant Vihar.[8]