Lahore Division is an Administrative Division of Punjab, Pakistan. It was originally an Administrative Division of the Punjab Province of British India. It expanded along the right bank of the Sutlej River from the Himalayas to Multan, consisting of six Districts of Sialkot, Gujranwala, Lahore, Amritsar, Gurdaspur and Gujrat. The total area of the Division was 44,430 km2 (17,154 sq mi) and the population according to the census of 1901 in India was 5,598,463. The Commissioner for the division used to exercise political control over the hill state of Chamba.
The Governor's provinces of British India were subdivided into Divisions, which were further divided into Districts. At independence in 1947, Pakistan comprised of two wings – Eastern and Western Pakistan, separated by India. Three of the provinces of Pakistan were subdivided into ten Administrative Divisions. The single Province in the eastern wing, East Bengal, had four divisions – Chittagong, Dacca, Khulna and Rajshahi. The province of West Punjab had four Divisions – Lahore, Multan, Rawalpindi and Sargodha. The North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhuwa) had two Divisions – Dera Ismail Khan and Peshawar. Most of the Divisions were named after the Divisional Capitals, with some exceptions.
In August 2000, this tier of government was abolished. In 2008, after the public elections, new Government decided to restore divisions of all provinces.