During the British rule, Narowal was the town of Raya Khas tehsil of Sialkot District.

[3] The district is administratively divided into the following three tehsils (subdivisions), which contain a total of 74 Union Councils:[4]

The total area of the district is approximately 2,337 square kilometres.

According to the 1998 census of Pakistan, Narowal District's population was 1,256,097, of which only 12.11% were urbans.

[9] According to the 2017 census, total population of District Narowal is 1.709 million.