Django is an MVC framework. However, the controller is called the "view", and the view is called the "template". The view in Django is the component which retrieves and manipulates data, whereas the template is the component that presents data to the user. For this reason, Django is sometimes called an MTV framework (where MTV stands for model template view). This different terminology neither changes the fact that Django is an MVC framework, nor affects how applications are developed. But keep the terminology in mind to avoid possible confusion if you have worked with other MVC frameworks in the past.