List of districts of Uttar Pradesh

Districts of Uttar Pradesh

The Indian state of Uttar Pradesh borders with Nepal and the Indian states of Bihar, 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.^[1] The former princely state of Tehri Garhwal joined on 1 August 1949^[2] and Rampur joined as a district on 1 December 1949.^[3] The States Reorganisation Act of 1956 had no major effect on status of Uttar Pradesh. On 9 November 2000 State of Uttaranchal (having Pauri Garhwal, Tehri Garhwal, Uttar Kashi, Chamoli, Dehradun, Nainital, Almora, Pithoragarh, Udham Singh Nagar, Bageshwar, Champawat, Rudraprayag and Hardwar districts) was carved out of Uttar Pradesh.^[4]

Uttar Pradesh is now divided into seventy two 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 Region. 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.

Administrative structure

Divisions of Uttar Pradesh

A district is governed by a District Collector, who is better known as a District Magistrate (DM) in the state of Uttar Pradesh. A DM is an officer from Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and is appointed by the State Government of Uttar Pradesh. Each district is divided into subdivisions. A subdivision is governed by a sub-divisional magistrate (SDM), better known as a Sub-Divisional Officer (SDO).^[5] Other than urban units such as town municipalities, a subdivision contains 'community development blocks' (also known as CD blocks or blocks). A block consists of urban units such as census towns and rural units called gram panchayats. A block is administered by a Block Development Officer (BDO), who is appointed by the Government of Uttar Pradesh.

A gram panchayat, which consists of a group of villages, is administered by a village council headed by a Pradhan.

A District Superintendent of Police, better known as a Superintendent of Police, heads the District Police organization of Uttar Pradesh Police. This is as per the Police Act of 1861, which is applicable to the whole of India.^[6] The Superintendents of Police are officers of the Indian Police Service.^[7] For every subdivision, there is a Subdivision Police, headed by a Police officer of the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police or Deputy Superintendent of Police.^[8] Under subdivisions, there are Police Circles, each headed by an Inspector of Police.^[8] A Police Circle consists of Police Stations, each headed by an Inspector of Police, or in case of rural areas, by a Sub-Inspector of Police.^[8]

The Allahabad High Court has the jurisdiction of the state of Uttar Pradesh. Though most of the districts have more courts other than a District Court, not every subdivision of the state has a Court.

A group of districts forms a division, which is administered by a 'Divisional Commissioner'. Uttar Pradesh is now divided in seventy five districts ^[9] , grouped under eighteen divisions:

Alphabetical listing of divisions

Division	Headquarters	Districts	Map
Agra division	Agra	Agra Firozabad Mainpuri Mathura
Aligarh division	Aligarh	Aligarh Etah Mahamaya Nagar Kanshiram Nagar
Allahabad division	Allahabad	Allahabad Fatehpur Kaushambi Pratapgarh
Azamgarh division	Azamgarh	Azamgarh Ballia Mau
Bareilly division	Bareilly	Badaun Bareilly Pilibhit Shahjahanpur
Basti division	Basti	Basti Sant Kabir Nagar Siddharthnagar
Chitrakoot division	Chitrakoot	Banda Chitrakoot Hamirpur Mahoba
Devipatan division	Gonda	Bahraich Balarampur Gonda Shravasti
Faizabad division	Faizabad	Ambedkar Nagar Barabanki Faizabad Sultanpur Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Nagar
Gorakhpur division	Gorakhpur	Deoria Gorakhpur Kushinagar Maharajganj
Jhansi division	Jhansi	Jalaun Jhansi Lalitpur
Kanpur division	Kanpur	Auraiya Etawah Farrukhabad Kannauj Kanpur Dehat Kanpur Nagar
Lucknow division	Lucknow	Hardoi Lakhimpur Kheri Lucknow Raebareli Sitapur Unnao
Meerut division	Meerut	Bagpat Bulandshahr Gautam Buddha Nagar Ghaziabad Meerut Panchsheel Nagar (Hapur)
Mirzapur division	Mirzapur	Mirzapur Sant Ravidas Nagar Sonbhadra
Moradabad division	Moradabad	Bhimnagar (Sambhal) Bijnor Jyotiba Phule Nagar Moradabad Rampur
Saharanpur division	Saharanpur	Muzaffarnagar Prabuddha Nagar (Shamli) Saharanpur
Varanasi division	Varanasi	Chandauli Ghazipur Jaunpur Varanasi

Alphabetical listing of districts

Code[10]	District[11]	Headquarters[11]	Population As of 2001[update][11]	Area (km2)[11]	Density (/km2[11]	Map
AG	Agra	Agra	3,611,301	4,027	897
AH	Allahabad	Allahabad	4,941,510	5,424	911
AL	Aligarh	Aligarh	2,990,388	3,747	798
AN	Ambedkar Nagar	Akbarpur	2,025,373	2,372	854
AU	Auraiya	Auraiya	1,179,496	2,051	575
AZ	Azamgarh	Azamgarh	3,950,808	4,234	933
BB	Barabanki	Barabanki	2,673,394	3,825	699
BD	Badaun	Badaun	3,069,245	5,168	594
BG	Nagendra	Nagendra	1,164,388	1,345	866	150px
BH	Bahraich	Bahraich	2,384,239	5,745	415
BI	Bijnor	Bijnor	3,130,586	4,561	686
BL	Ballia	Ballia	2,752,412	2,981	923
BN	Banda District	Banda	1,500,253	4,413	340
BP	Balrampur	Balrampur	1,684,567	2,925	576
BR	Bareilly	Bareilly	3,598,701	4,120	873
BS	Basti	Basti	2,068,922	3,034	682
BU	Bulandshahr	Bulandshahr	2,923,290	3,719	786
CD	Chandauli	Chandauli	1,639,777	2,554	642
CT	Chitrakoot	Chitrakoot	800,592	3,202	250
DE	Deoria	Deoria	2,730,376	2,535	1,077
ET	Etah	Etah	2,788,270	4,446	627
EW	Etawah	Etawah	1,340,031	2,287	586
FI	Firozabad	Firozabad	2,045,737	2,361	866
FR	Farrukhabad	Fatehgarh	1,577,237	2,279	692
FT	Fatehpur	Fatehpur	2,305,847	4,152	555
FZ	Faizabad	Faizabad	2,087,914	2,765	755
GB	Gautam Buddha Nagar	NOIDA	1,191,263	1,269	939
GN	Gonda	Gonda	2,765,754	4,425	625
GP	Ghazipur	Ghazipur	3,049,337	3,377	903
GR	Gorkakhpur	Gorakhpur	3,784,720	3,325	1,138
GZ	Ghaziabad	Ghaziabad	3,289,540	1,956	1,682
HM	Hamirpur	Hamirpur	1,042,374	4,325	241
HR	Hardoi	Hardoi	3,397,414	5,986	568
HT	Mahamaya Nagar	Hathras	1,333,372	1,752	761
JH	Jhansi	Jhansi	1,746,715	5,024	348
JP	Jyotiba Phule Nagar	Amroha	1,499,193	2,321	646
JU	Jaunpur District	Jaunpur	3,911,305	4,038	969
KD	Kanpur Dehat	Akbarpur	1,584,037	3,143	504
KJ	Kannauj	Kannauj	1,385,227	1,993	695
KN	Kanpur Nagar	Kanpur	4,137,489	3,029	1,366
-	Kanshi Ram Nagar	Kasganj	-	-	–	–
KS	Kaushambi	Manjhanpur	1,294,937	1,837	705
KU	Kushinagar	Padarauna	2,891,933	2,909	994
LA	Lalitpur	Lalitpur	977,447	5,039	194
LK	Lakhimpur Kheri	Kheri	3,200,137	7,680	417
LU	Lucknow	Lucknow	3,681,416	2,528	1,456
MB	Mau	Mau	1,849,294	1,713	1,080
ME	Meerut	Meerut	3,001,636	2,522	1,190
MG	Maharajganj	Maharajganj	2,167,041	2,948	735
MH	Mahoba	Mahoba	708,831	2,847	249
MI	Mirzapur	Mirzapur	2,114,852	4,522	468
MO	Moradabad	Moradabad	3,749,630	3,648	1,028
MP	Mainpuri	Mainpuri	1,592,875	2,760	577
MT	Mathura	Mathura	2,069,578	3,333	621
MU	Muzaffarnagar	Muzaffarnagar	3,541,952	4,008	884
PI	Pilibhit	Pilibhit	1,643,788	3,499	470
PR	Pratapgarh	Pratapgarh	2,727,156	3,717	734
RA	Rampur	Rampur	1,922,450	2,367	812
RB	Rae Bareli	Rae Bareli	2,872,204	4,609	623
SA	Saharanpur	Saharanpur	2,848,152	3,689	772
SI	Sitapur	Sitapur	3,616,510	5,743	630
SJ	Shahjahanpur	Shahjahanpur	2,549,458	4,575	557
SK	Sant Kabir Nagar	Khalilabad	1,424,500	1,442	988
SN	Siddharthnagar	Navgarh	2,038,598	2,751	741
SO	Sonbhadra	Robertsganj	1,463,468	6,788	216
SR	Sant Ravidas Nagar	Gyanpur	1,352,056	960	1,408
SK	South Kanpur	South Kanpur	5,382,709	4,679	985	150px
SU	Sultanpur	Sultanpur	3,190,926	4,436	719
SV	Shravasti	Shravasti	1,175,428	1,126	1,044
UN	Unnao	Unnao	2,700,426	4,558	592
VA	Varanasi	Varanasi	3,147,927	1,578	1,995

See also

• Divisions of Uttar Pradesh
• List of RTO districts in Uttar Pradesh

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