# Uttar Pradesh

| Uttar Pradesh उत्तर प्रदेश (in Hindi) اتر پردیش (in Urdu) U.P. |
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| Seal |
| Location o Uttar Pradesh in Indie |
| Cairt o Uttar Pradesh |
| Coordinates (Lucknow): ﻿ / ﻿ |
| Kintra |  Indie |
| Region | Awadh, Baghelkhand, Braj, Bundelkhand, Purvanchal, RohilKhand, Indo-Gangetic Plain |
| Established | Modren: 1805 (as Cedit an Conquered Provinces)
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| History | Summary
* 1805: Cedit an Conquered Provinces.
* 14 Nov. 1834: Presidency o Agra.
* 1 Jan. 1836: North-Wastren Provinces.
* 3 Apr. 1858: Oudh taen unner Breetish control, Delhi taen awa frae NWP an mergit intae Punjab.
* 1 Apr. 1871: Ajmer, Merwara an Kekri made separate commissioner ship.
* 15 Feb. 1877: Oudh eikit tae North-Wastren Provinces.
* 22 Mar. 1902: Renamit Unitit Provinces o Agra an Oudh.
* 3 Jan. 1921: Renamit Unitit Provinces o Breetish Indie.
* 1 Apr. 1937: Renamit Unitit Provinces
* 1 Apr. 1946: Sel rule grantit.
* 15 Aug. 1947: Pairt o independent Indie.
* 26 Jan. 1950: Renamit Uttar Pradesh
* 9 Nov. 2000: Uttaranchal state creatit frae pairt o Uttar Pradesh.
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| Caipital | Lucknow |
| Lairgest ceety | Kanpur |
| Lairgest Metropolitan Region | Kanpur Metropolitan Region |
| Destricts | 75 total |
| Govrenment |
|  • Bodi | Govrenment o Indie, Govrenment o Uttar Pradesh |
|  • Govrenor | Banwari Lal Joshi |
|  • Chief Meenister | Kumari Mayawati (BSP) |
|  • Legislature | Bicameral (404 + 108 seats) |
|  • Parliamentary constituency | 80 |
|  • Heich Coort | Allahabad Heich Coort |
| Area |
|  • Total | 243286 km2 (93,933 sq mi) |
| Area rank | 5t |
| Population (2011) |
|  • Total | 200,000,000 |
|  • Rank | 1st |
|  • Density | 820/km2 (2,100/sq mi) |
| Demonym(s) | Uttarpradeshi, UPite, UPian, North Indie, Uttar Bhartiya |
| Time zone | UTC+05:30 (IST) |
| UN/LOCODE | INUP |
| Vehicle registration | UP XX XXXX |
| HDI |  0.490 (medium) |
| HDI rank | 32th (2005) |
| Literacy | 69.72% (29t) 79.24% (male) 59.26% (female) |
| Offeecial leid | Hindi, Urdu |
| Website | upgov.nic.in |

**Uttar Pradesh** abbreviation **U.P.** (Hindi: उत्तर प्रदेश, Urdu: اتر پردیش‎, pronounced [ˈʊt̪t̪ər prəˈd̪eːʃ] ( listen), "Northren Province"), (umwhile Unitit Provinces; Hindi: यूनाईटेड प्रोविन्सेस, Urdu: یونائیٹڈ پروونس‎) is a state locatit in the northren pairt o Indie. Wi a population o ower 200 million fowk, it is Indie's maist populous state, as well as the warld's maist populous sub-naitional entity. Gin it wis a naition in its awn richt, Uttar Pradesh wad be the warld's fift muckle maist kintra aheid o Brazil, a kintra thirty-five times lairger in territorial aurie than Uttar Pradesh.

## Admeenistrative diveesions an destricts (as in 2010)

The state o Uttar Pradesh consists o seiventy five destricts, whilk are groupit intae aichteen diveesions:-
Agra diveesion, Aligarh diveesion, Allahabad diveesion, Azamgarh diveesion, Bareilly diveesion, Basti diveesion, Chitrakoot diveesion, Devipatan diveesion, Faizabad diveesion, Gorakhpur diveesion, Jhansi diveesion, Kanpur diveesion, Lucknow diveesion, Meerut diveesion, Mirzapur diveesion, Moradabad diveesion, Saharanpur diveesion an Varanasi diveesion.

Municipal corporations
Follaein are Municipal Corporations (*Nagar Nigam*) in UP:

1. Agra
2. Aligarh
3. Allahabad
4. Bareilly
5. Ghaziabad
6. Gorakhpur
7. Jhansi
8. Kanpur
9. Lucknow
10. Meerut
11. Moradabad
12. Saharanpur
13. Varanasi

Special status
1. Noida

Lairgest urban aurie - 2011 census
1. Kanpur (4,901,474)
2. Lucknow (4,320,067)

Figures based on the census 2011 ()

Ceeties unner JNNURM
1. Kanpur
2. Lucknow
3. Allahabad
4. Varanasi
5. Agra
6. Meerut
7. Mathura

## Freemit airtins

* Uttar Pradesh an Its Destricts Maps Archived 2011-12-22 at the Wayback Machine
* Uttar Pradesh at Curlie
* Offeecial wabsteid o the Govrenment o Uttar Pradesh Archived 2007-02-02 at the Wayback Machine
* Offeecial Wabsteid o Uttar Pradesh Tourism Archived 2019-08-18 at the Wayback Machine
* Uttar Pradesh Live Archived 2012-02-04 at the Wayback Machine
* PIN Code Search o Aw Destricts/Post Offices o Uttar Pradesh Archived 2012-04-05 at the Wayback Machine
* PIN Code Search o Aw Destricts/Post Offices o Uttar Pradesh Archived 2012-04-05 at the Wayback Machine
* Resources on Uttar Pradesh