The western Indian state of Gujarat has 34 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 is the most populated district while Dang is the least. There are 251 Talukas (subdivisions of districts) in Gujarat.
The district administration is headed by the District Collector, an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer appointed by the government. The Collector is assisted by Additional Collectors and Deputy Collectors at the district (collectorate) level, Prant Officers (Sub-Divisional Magistrates) at the subdivision (prant) level, and Mamlatdars at the taluka level.
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 Marathi 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.
In 1966, Valsad was split from Surat.
On 2 October 1997, five new districts were created:
In 2000, Patan District was formed from parts of Banaskantha and Mehsana.
On 2 October 2007, Tapi was split from Surat, as the state's 26th district.
On 15 August 2013, seven new districts were created:
On 2nd October 2025, Vav-Tharad was formed from parts of Banaskantha
Listed west to east"
The five regions of Gujarat are as follows (clockwise from north):