Uttar Pradesh General Knowledge (UP GK)
Districts in UP
Area wise Uttar Pradesh is the fourth largest state in India. It has 75 number of districts in UP, which are covering a total of 9.73% of the geographical area of India that is 243,286 km². These 75 districts are under 18 administrative divisions with each one having its headquarters. In recent years the name of the Allahabad division changed to the Prayagraj division and the Faizabad division changed to the Ayodhya division.
List of the number of districts in UP
| S.NO |
Administrative Division |
Headquarter |
Districts |
|
1. |
Aligarh division | Aligarh |
Etah Hathras Kasganj Aligarh |
|
2. |
Agra division | Agra |
Firozabad Mainpuri Mathura Agra |
|
3. |
Azamgarh division | Azamgarh |
Ballia Mau Azamgarh |
|
4. |
Basti division | Basti |
Sant Kabir Nagar Siddharth Nagar Basti |
|
5. |
Bareilly division | Bareilly |
Budaun Bareilly Pilibhit Shahjahanpur |
|
6. |
Chitrakoot division | Chitrakoot |
Banda Chitrakoot Hamirpur Mahoba |
|
7. |
Devipatan division | Gonda |
Bahraich Balarampur Gonda Shravasti |
|
8. |
Ayodhya division | Ayodhya |
Ambedkar Nagar Amethi Barabanki Faizabad Sultanpur |
|
9. |
Gorakhpur division | Gorakhpur |
Deoria Gorakhpur Kushinagar Maharajganj |
|
10. |
Jhansi division | Jhansi |
Jalaun Jhansi Lalitpur |
|
11. |
Kanpur division | Kanpur |
Auraiya Etawah Farrukhabad Kannauj Kanpur Dehat Kanpur Nagar |
|
12. |
Lucknow division | Lucknow |
Hardoi Lakhimpur Kheri Lucknow Raebareli Sitapur Unnao |
|
13. |
Meerut division | Meerut |
Bagpat Bulandshahr Gautam Buddha Nagar Ghaziabad Hapur Meerut |
|
14. |
Mirzapur division | Mirzapur |
Bhadohi district Mirzapur Sonbhadra |
|
15. |
Moradabad division | Moradabad |
Amroha Bijnor Moradabad Rampur Sambhal |
|
16. |
Prayagraj division | Prayagraj |
Fatehpur Kaushambi Pratapgarh Prayagraj |
|
17. |
Saharanpur division | Saharanpur |
Muzaffarnagar Saharanpur Shamli |
|
18. |
Varanasi division | Varanasi |
Chandauli Ghazipur Jaunpur Varanasi |
FAQs on districts in UP
Q.1) How many districts in UP?
Answer: There are 75 no. of districts in UP.
Q.2) How many districts are in UP west?
Answer: Western UP has 6 divisions which have a total no. of 30 districts.
Q.3) How many districts are in UP East?
Answer: There are 23 districts in eastern UP.
Q.4) Which is the largest district in UP?
Answer: Lakhimpur Kheri with an area of 7,680 KM2 is the largest district in UP.
Q.5) How many Tehsil are there in up 2020?
Answer: 350 Tehsil are there in up.
Q.6) How many cities are in UP?
Answer: 915 cities are in UP.
Q.7) Which is the smallest district in UP?
Answer: Bhadohi with an area of 1,056 km² is the smallest district in UP.
Q.8) How many aspirational districts in UP?
Answer: Uttar Pradesh (UP) has eight aspirational districts.
Q.9) What is the name of aspirational districts in UP?
Answer: Bahraich, Chandoli, Balrampur, Fatehpur, Sonbhadra, Chitrakoot, Shravasti, and Siddharthnagar.
Q.10) How many villages are in UP?
Answer: There are 1,06,774 villages in UP.
Q.11) what is the capital of Uttar Pradesh?
Answer: Lucknow is the capital of UP.
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