Kotli District (Urdu: ضلع کوٹلی) is a district of Pakistan-administered Azad Kashmir in the Azad Kashmir region.

[1] It is one of the 10 districts of Pakistan's dependent territory of Azad Kashmir.

[3] The main native languages are Pahari (estimated to be spoken by just under two thirds of the population), and Gujari (spoken by about a third of the population).

With regard to infrastructure, the Kotli District stands at 154, with a score of 14.14, which is the second lowest in Pakistan and its two dependent territories.

[6] That score shows that there is a serious problem with the lack of basic facilities such as electricity, functional toilets, furniture, and boundary walls.