    uttar pradesh is one of the 29 states of india, and is divided into seventy districts under eighteen divisions. districts are administered by district magistrates, and divisions are administered by divisional commissioners. lucknow, the capital of the state, constitutes the lucknow district. kanpur is the largest city with population of over 3 million which comes under kanpur metropolitan area.  other districts are further divided into administrative units such as subdivisions and blocks, administered by sdo and bdo, respectively. the panchayati raj has a three-tier structure in the state. the atomic unit is called a gram panchayat, which is the panchayat organization for a collection of villages. the block-level organizations are called panchayat samiti, and the district-level organizations are named zilla parishad. the indian states that border uttar pradesh are bihar, anil nagar jharkhand, chhattisgarh, madhya pradesh, rajasthan, haryana, uttarakhand and national capital territory of delhi. the himalayas lies in the north of the state and the deccan plateau is at the south. in between them, the river ganges, yamuna, ghaghra flow eastwards. uttar pradesh can be divided into three distinct regions, southern hills and gangetic plain in 1947, when india gained independence, the state of united provinces was renamed as uttar pradesh. the former princely state of tehri garhwal joined on 1 august 1949 and rampur joined as a district on 1 december 1949. the states reorganisation act of 1956 had no major effect on status of uttar pradesh. on 9 november 2000, the state of uttaranchal, now known as uttarakhand, which consists of the districts pauri garhwal, tehri garhwal, uttarkashi, chamoli, dehradun, nainital, almora, pithoragarh, udham singh nagar, bageshwar, champawat, rudraprayag and haridwar, was carved out of uttar pradesh.{{cite web|author=helplinelaw |url=http://www.helplinelaw.com/docs/the%20uttar%20pradesh%20reorganisation%20act,%202000 |title=the uttar pradesh reorganisation act 2000 - indi
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