Tehsil Okara is one of the four tehsils of district Okara. It spreads over an area of 1,241 square kilometres with a population of 862,364 (as per DCR 1998).

Okara Tehsil is about 127 kilometres to the south-west of Lahore, on the National Highway, and on the main Lahore-Karachi Railway Line. Okara is bounded by district Faisalabad and Sheikhupura on the north-west where river Ravi forms the natural boundary. On the north-east lies the district of Kasur. On the south is the district of Bahawalnagar and south-west is Pakpattan district and the boundary of Sahiwal district on the west. On the south runs the river Satluj with some area of Tehsil Depalpur across the river alongwith Indo-Pak border.

Okara was raised to the level of Municipal Committee in 1937. After the implementation of Punjab Local Government Ordinance 2001, it was given the status of TMA.