Uttar Pradesh - Regions and Cities

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 Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh is divided into 75 districts under these 18 divisions:

  1. Saharanpur
  2. Moradabad
  3. Bareilly
  4. Lucknow
  5. Devipatan
  6. Basti
  7. Gorakhpur
  8. Meerut
  9. Aligarh
  10. Agra
  1. Kanpur
  2. Faizabad
  3. Azamgarh
  4. Jhansi
  5. Chitrakoot
  6. Allahabad
  7. Varanasi
  8. Mirzapur

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
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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