The Southern District (Hebrew: מחוז הדרום, Meḥoz HaDarom; Arabic: لواء الجنوب) is one of Israel's six administrative districts, the largest in terms of land area but the most sparsely populated.

It covers most of the Negev desert, as well as the Arava valley.

Its population is 79.66% Jewish and 12.72% Arab (mostly Muslim), with 7.62% of other origins.

[4] The district capital is Beersheba, while the largest city is Ashdod.

Beersheba's dormitory towns of Omer, Meitar, and Lehavim are affluent on an Israel scale, while the development towns of Dimona, Sderot, Netivot, Ofakim, and Yeruham and the seven Bedouin cities are lower on the socio-economic scale.