[2] The administrative setup of the region was as follows (districts and divisions which do not exist anymore are and are in Pakistani Punjab are in red writing, districts and divisions which were (at least mostly) given to India during the Partition of India are in orange writing, districts and divisions which are (at least mostly) currently in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province are in green writing, and districts and divisions which have been renamed and are in Pakistani Punjab are in blue writing):[3] The exact same setup was in use at the time of the 1881 Census of Punjab as well.

[7] By the 1901 census, the 10 revenue divisions that had been in place since 1868 had also been reorganized into only 5 larger divisions: Delhi, Jalandhar, Lahore, Multan, and Rawalpindi, and Sirsah District had been absorbed into Hissar District.

The administrative setup of the region was as follows (districts and divisions which do not exist anymore are and are in Pakistani Punjab are in red writing, districts and divisions which were (at least mostly) given to India during the Partition of India are in orange writing, and districts and divisions which have been renamed and are in Pakistani Punjab are in blue writing):[9] In late 1911, the imperial capital of British India was moved from Calcutta (today Kolkata) to Delhi.

The administrative setup of Punjab was as follows (districts and divisions which do not exist anymore are and are in Pakistani Punjab are in red writing, districts and divisions which were (at least mostly) given to India during the Partition of India are in orange writing, and districts and divisions which have been renamed and are in Pakistani Punjab are in blue writing):[10] This exact setup existed in Punjab through the 1931 census,[11] 1941 census,[12] and all the way up to the partition of India and the independence of India and Pakistan.

[13][12] Jalandhar Division was entirely given to India as well, and each of its districts had a non-Muslim majority.

This left sixteen districts in Pakistani Punjab, that were split up into three divisions.

The administrative setup of Pakistani Punjab in 1951 was as follows (districts and divisions which do not exist anymore are in red writing, and districts and divisions which still exist, but have been renamed are in blue writing):[14] In 1955, the One Unit policy that consolidated all of West Pakistan into one province began.

The area covering former West Punjab, though, kept the same districts and divisions through 1961 (and the 1961 census) as it did in 1951.

[15] The One Unit policy ended in 1970 and provinces returned once again, but when West Punjab was reorganized, it was renamed Punjab and the area which earlier housed the Princely State of Bahawalpur (which, during One Unit, was made into a division and split into the three districts of Bahawalnagar, Bahawalpur, and Rahim Yar Khan) was absorbed into the province.

[17] Sometime between the censuses of 1981 and 1998, the districts of Dera Ghazi Khan and Muzaffargarh were removed from Multan Division and were organized into the newly formed Dera Ghazi Khan Division.

Layyah District was a part of Dera Ghazi Khan Division.

Okara District was placed inside Lahore Division by the time of the 1998 census.

Toba Tek Singh District was inside Faisalabad Division by the time of the 1998 census.

Narowal District was inside Gujranwala Division by the time of the 1998 census.

Mandi Bahauddin District was inside Gujranwala Division by the time of the 1998 census.

[17] All this meant was that by the time of the 1998 Census of Pakistan, the province of Punjab was administratively divided into 34 districts inside eight divisions.

The administrative setup of Punjab was as follows:[17][18] In August 2000, all of the divisions throughout Pakistan were abolished, but were reinstated in their exact previous forms eight years later after the elections of 2008, with one exception.

[18] This meant that by the time of the 2017 Census of Pakistan, the province of Punjab had 36 districts (two more than in 1998) organized into nine divisions.

Murree created from Rawalpindi, Talagang from Chakwal, Wazirabad from Gujranwala and added in Gujrat Division, Kot Addu from Muzaffargarh, and Taunsa from Dera Ghazi Khan.

The districts are initially listed in alphabetical order, but they can be sorted in different ways by clicking the headers of the table.