Twelve districts, 117 tehsils and 55,673 square kilometres: how Himachal Pradesh is divided

Background

Flood control money for a stream in Lahaul-Spiti and a health centre in Sirmaur both come out of one administrative map, so it helps to know that map. The State government's own portal puts Himachal Pradesh at 55,673 square kilometres. The State is divided into 12 districts, with 83 sub-divisions and 117 tehsils below them. The portal gives the State's population as 68,64,602. It also records 168 police stations across the State. The Secretariat of Himachal Pradesh sits at Shimla, where the State's High Court also sits. A tehsil is the revenue unit below a sub-division, headed by a Tehsildar.