Parchim is a former Kreis (district) in the southwestern part of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany.

Most of the district is now agriculturally used, but in the easternmost part there are several lakes, the largest of them being the Plauer See (39 km2).

The Plauer See marks the western end of the Müritz lakeland.

The borders of this new district were roughly identical with the medieval principality of Parchim-Riechenberg, which existed between 1238 and 1316.

The subdivisions of the district were (situation August 2011): Media related to Landkreis Parchim at Wikimedia Commons