Regions and Cities
Main articles: Divisions of Uttar Pradesh and Districts of Uttar Pradesh See also: Western Uttar Pradesh, Eastern Uttar Pradesh, and Central Uttar PradeshUttar Pradesh is divided into 75 districts under these 18 divisions:
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The following is a list of top five districts from state of by rank in India.
| Rank | District | Population | Growth rate | Sex ratio | Literacy | Density per Kilometer |
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| 13 | Allahabad | 5,959,798 | 20.74 | 902 | 74.41 | 1087 |
| 26 | Moradabad | 4,773,138 | 25.25 | 903 | 58.67 | 1284 |
| 28 | Ghaziabad | 4,661,452 | 41.66 | 878 | 85.00 | 3967 |
| 30 | Azamgarh | 4,616,509 | 17.17 | 1017 | 72.69 | 1139 |
| 31 | Lucknow | 5,943,300 | 14.44 | 960 | 79.04 | 636 |
| 32 | Kanpur Nagar | 5,520,389 | 9.49 | 958 | 82.55 | 1753 |
Each district is governed by a district collector or District Magistrate, appointed either by the Indian Administrative Service or Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission. Each district is divided into subdivisions, governed by a sub-divisional magistrate, and again into Blocks. Blocks consists of panchayats (village councils) and town municipalities. These blocks consists of urban units viz. census towns and rural units called gram panchayat.
Uttar Pradesh has more metropolitan cities than any other state in India. The absolute urban population of the state is 44.4 million, which constitutes 11.8% of the total urban population of India, the second highest of any state. According to the 2011 census, there are 15 urban agglomerations with a population greater than 500,000. There are 14 municipal corporations, while Noida is specially administered by a statuary authority.
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