Shimla district

Shimla district was part of Mahasu district which included Shimla, Solan and Kinnaur districts. Kinnaur was carved out on 1 May 1969 out of Mahasu district and Shimla and Solan districts were made separate districts out of Mahasu district on 1 September 1972. Shimla district was obtained by the British as Mahasu district which included aforementioned districts also in 1815. == Access ==

By road Shimla is connected by road to all the major towns. Distance between the major towns and Shimla: • Kalka - 80 km • Patiala - 172 km • Chandigarh - 119 km • Ambala - 166 km • Delhi - 380 km • Agra - 568 km • Amritsar - 342 km • Jammu (via Pathankot) - 482 km • Srinagar - 787 km • Jaipur - 629 km • Dharmsala (via Mandi) - 290 km • Dharamsala (via Hamirpur) - 235 km • Dalhousie - 345 km • Chamba - 401 km • Kullu - 235 km • Manali - 280 km • Mandi - 153 km • Palampur - 270 km • Dehradun - 275 km • Rampur - 132 km • Kumarsain - 80 km • Narkanda - 60 km • Rohru - 129 km • Theog - 28 km • Chaupal - 100 km ==Climate==

{{Weather box ==Demographics==

According to the 2011 census, the district had a population of 814,010. This gives it a ranking of 483rd in India (out of a total of 640). ==Notable people==

• Aalisha Panwar - Indian actress • Abhilasha Kumari - Former Indian Judge • Anupam Kher - Indian actor • Asmita Sood - Indian television actress • Anand Sharma - Former Union Minister and Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha • Ashish R Mohan - Indian film director • Balak Ram Kashyap - Former Member of Parliament and Member of Legislative Assembly • Chetan Singh - Historian • Dhan Singh Thapa - a prestigious Indian Army Officer and Param Vir Chakra Awardee • Harish Janartha - Member of Legislative Assembly • Kamayani Bisht - educator, poet, actress • Krushna Abhishek - Indian actor and comedian • Nirmal Verma - Hindi writer • Pratibha Singh - Member of Legislative Assembly • Pratibha Ranta - Indian actress • Priety Zinta - Indian actress • Rakesh Singha - Politician • Renuka Singh - Indian cricketer • Rubina Dilaik - Indian actress • Sanjay Chauhan - Politician • Shakti Singh - Indian actor • Shreya Sharma - Indian actress • Shrinivas Joshi - columnist, theatre person, ex-civil servant • Siddharth Pandey - writer, historian, photographer • Suresh Bhardwaj - Former Member of Legislative Assembly • Sushma Verma - Indian cricketer • Thakur Ram Lal - Former Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh • Vikramaditya Singh - Member of Lagislative Assembly • Vikrant Massey - Indian actor • Virbhadra Singh - Former Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh == Notes ==