diff --git a/django/contrib/gis/gdal/libgdal.py b/django/contrib/gis/gdal/libgdal.py
index 056efaf01d4..96acee9f5ed 100644
--- a/django/contrib/gis/gdal/libgdal.py
+++ b/django/contrib/gis/gdal/libgdal.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ if lib_path:
     lib_names = None
 elif os.name == 'nt':
     # Windows NT shared libraries
-    lib_names = ['gdal21', 'gdal20', 'gdal111', 'gdal110', 'gdal19']
+    lib_names = ['gdal201', 'gdal20', 'gdal111', 'gdal110', 'gdal19']
 elif os.name == 'posix':
     # *NIX library names.
     lib_names = ['gdal', 'GDAL', 'gdal2.1.0', 'gdal2.0.0', 'gdal1.11.0', 'gdal1.10.0', 'gdal1.9.0']
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.11.2.txt b/docs/releases/1.11.2.txt
index 718dc386bb5..99e82f75a01 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.11.2.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.11.2.txt
@@ -42,3 +42,5 @@ Bugfixes
 
 * Prevented ``Subquery`` from adding an unnecessary ``CAST`` which resulted in
   invalid SQL (:ticket:`28199`).
+
+* Corrected detection of GDAL 2.1 on Windows (:ticket:`28181`).