Nalut (Arabic: نالوت Nālūt) is one of the districts of Libya located in the country's north-west.

To the north and west, Nalut district borders Tunisia (Medenine and Tataouine Governatorates) and Algeria.

Nalut District is located in the north western part of Libya, called Tripolitania.

Most of the country has a flat undulating plain and occasional plateau, with an average elevation of around 423 m (1,388 ft).

There were 8,788 workers in state administration, 4,345 in agriculture, animal husbandry and forestry, 4,576 in agriculture & hunting, 10,240 in education, 2,429 in private enterprises, 2,121 in health & social work, 2,795 in production, 9,494 in technical work and 203 service workers.

[8] As a part of decentralization in 2012, the country was administratively split into 13 regions from the original 25 municipalities, which were further divided into 1,500 communes.