The two historically distinct districts of Lahaul (Tibetan: གར་ཞ་, Wylie: gar zha) and Spiti (Tibetan: སྤི་ཏི་, Wylie: spi ti; or Tibetan: སྤྱི་ཏི, Wylie: spyi ti) make up the Lahaul and Spiti district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. Currently, Kyelang in Lahaul serves as the administrative hub. Kardang was the capital of Lahaul and Dhankar the capital of Spiti prior to the merger of the two districts. Having been established in 1960, the district has the fourth-lowest population in India (out of 640 As per the 2011 Census of India, it is the district with the least density of population in the country.