django-admin is Django’s command-line utility for administrative TASKS. In addition to this, a manage.py FILE is also automatically created in each Django project. Not only does it perform the same purpose as the django-admin but it also sets the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable to point to the project's settings.py file.

• django-admin help - used to display usage information and a list of the commands provided by each application.
• django-admin version - used to check your Django version.
• django-admin check - used to inspect the entire Django project for common problems.
• django-admin compilemessages - Compiles .po files created by makemessages to .mo files for use with the help of built-in gettext support.
• django-admin createcachetable - Creates the cache tables for use in the database cache backend.
• django-admin dbshell - Runs the command-line client for the database engine specified in your ENGINE setting(s), with the connection parameters (USER, PASSWORD, DB_NAME, USER etc.) specified settings file.
• django-admin diffsettings - Shows the difference between the EXISTING settings file and Django’s default settings.
• django-admin dumpdata - Used to the dumpdata from the database.
• django-admin flush - Flush all values from the database and also re-executes any post-synchronization handlers specified in the code.
• django-admin inspectdb - It generates django models from the existing database tables.
• django-admin loaddata - loads the data into the database from the fixture file.
• django-admin makemessages - Used for translation purpose and it generates a message file too.
• django-admin makemigrations - Generates new migrations as per the changes detected to your models.
• django-admin migrate - Executes SQL commands after which the database state with the current set of models and migrations are synchronized.
• django-admin runserver - Starts a light-weight Web server on the local machine for development. The default server runs on port 8000 on the IP address 127.0.0.1. You can pass a custom IP address and port number explicitly if you want.
• django-admin sendtestemail - This is used to confirm email sending through Django is working by sending a test email to the recipient(s) specified.
• django-admin shell - Starts the Python interactive interpreter.
• django-admin showmigrations - Shows all migrations present in the project.
• django-admin sqlflush - Prints the SQL statements that would be executed for the flush command mentioned above.
• django-admin sqlmigrate - Prints the SQL STATEMENT for the named migration.
• django-admin sqlsequencereset - output the SQL queries for resetting sequences for the given app name(s).
• django-admin squashmigrations - Squashes a range of migrations for a particular app_label.
• django-admin startapp - Creates a new Django app for the given app name within the current directory or at the given destination.
• django-admin startproject - Creates a new Django project directory structure for the given project name within the current directory or at the given destination.
• django-admin test - Runs tests for all installed apps.
• django-admin testserver - Runs a Django development server (which is also executed via the runserver command) using data from the given fixture(s).
• django-admin changepassword - offers a method to change the user's password.
• django-admin createsuperuser - Creates a user account with all permissions(also known as SUPERUSER account).
• django-admin remove_stale_contenttypes - removes stale content types (from deleted models) in your database.
• django-admin clearsessions - Can be used to clean out expired sessions or as a cron job.