Locations of major cities in Uttar Pradesh
Kanpur
Lucknow
Ayodhya
Gorakhpur
Ghaziabad
Noida
Saharanpur
Agra
Varanasi
Meerut
Prayagraj
Jhansi
Bareilly
Aligarh
Moradabad
Locations of major cities in Uttar Pradesh

The Indian state of Uttar Pradesh borders with Nepal and the Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh 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 and Sarayu (ghaghra) flow eastwards. Uttar Pradesh can be divided into two distinct regions, Southern hills and Gangetic plain. Uttar Pradesh is divided into 75 districts under 18 divisions.[1] As of 2011, with an estimated population of 199,581,477. Uttar Pradesh is the most populous state in India.[2] Uttar Pradesh occupies 6.88 percent of the India's land surface area but is home to 16.49 percent of the India's population.[3][4] As of 2011, 64 cities in the state had a population of over 100,000 people. Lucknow is the largest city of Uttar Pradesh in terms of population whereas Lucknow is also the largest city of Uttar Pradesh in terms of area covering an area of 631Km Square which is the most among all cities in UP as per their Municipal Limits. The smallest city with a population over 100,000 people was Kasganj with a population of 101,241 people according to 2011 census figures.

List

This list refers only to the population of individual municipalities within their defined limits; the populations of other municipalities considered suburbs or outgrowths of a central city are listed separately, and unincorporated areas within urban agglomerations are not included. Therefore, a different ranking is evident when considering metropolitan area population of india

The total geographical area of Uttar Pradesh is 240,928 square kilometres (93,023 sq mi).[2] As per census data 2011, the total population of Uttar Pradesh is: 199,581,477.[2]

Rank Name District Type* Category Population 2011[5][6] Male[citation needed] Female[citation needed] Population
below 5 yrs[citation needed] 		Literacy Rate[citation needed]
1 Kanpur Kanpur UA Nagar Nigam 2,817,105 1,484,967 1,474,100 266,336 82
2 Lucknow Lucknow UA Nagar Nigam 2,767,348 1,618,951 1,582,523 289,375 88.98
3 Ghaziabad Ghaziabad UA Nagar Nigam 1,729,000 864,500 864,500 308,717 80
4 Agra Agra City Nagar Nigam 1,585,704 1,042,441 963,402 210,036 78
5 Meerut Meerut City Nagar Nigam 1,226,709 6,54,857 5,70,051 176,770 78.29
6 Varanasi Varanasi City Nagar Nigam 1,201,815 755,734 660,985 112,023 80.31
7 Prayagraj Prayagraj City Nagar Nigam 1,112,544 961,060 874,053 157,482 86.36
8 Bareilly Bareilly UA Nagar Nigam 913,668 722,385 557,548 104,560 70.97
9 Aligarh Aligarh UA Nagar Nigam 909,559 482,828 426,731 118,778 70.54
10 Moradabad Moradabad City Nagar Nigam 889,810 466,432 432,378 110,376 70.65
11 Saharanpur Saharanpur City Nagar Nigam 703,345 371,858 331,487 88,501 77.94
12 Gorakhpur Gorakhpur City Nagar Nigam 692,519 365,148 327,371 65,078 85.64
13 Noida Gautam Buddha Nagar City Nagar Nigam 642,381 320,482 321,899 63,567 88.58
14 Firozabad Firozabad City Nagar Nigam 603,797 320,012 283,785 83,530 75.01
15 Jhansi Jhansi UA Nagar Nigam 549,391 292,497 256,894 56,230 84.41
16 Muzaffarnagar Muzaffarnagar City Nagar Palika 494,792 261,338 233,454 64,696 80.99
17 Mathura-Vrindavan Mathura UA Nagar Nigam 454,937 244,333 210,604 56,267 77.11
18 Ayodhya Ayodhya UA Nagar Nigam 420,001 213,416 206,535 156,890 93.00
19 Rampur Rampur UA Nagar Palika 359,062 182,325 166,737 41,769 79.56
20 Shahjahanpur Shahjahanpur UA Nagar Nigam 356,103 183,087 163,016 38,736 79.81
21 Farrukhabad-Fatehgarh Farrukhabad City Nagar Palika 318,540 164,630 145,910 39,944 75.60
22 Budaun Baduan UA Nagar Palika 290,799 140,799 120,000 25,789 78.78
23 Maunath Bhanjan Mau City Nagar Palika 279,060 143,273 135,787 40,651 78.60
24 Hapur Hapur City Nagar Palika 262,801 139,694 123,107 36,714 75.34
25 Etawah Etawah City Nagar Palika 256,790 135,829 120,961 28,922 82.89
26 Mirzapur-Vindhyachal Mirzapur UA Nagar Palika 245,817 131,534 114,283 29,619 77.85
27 Bulandshahr Bulandshahr UA Nagar Palika 235,310 125,549 111,761 30,886 78.37
28 Sambhal Sambhal City Nagar Palika 221,334 116,008 105,326 34,279 49.51
29 Amroha Amroha City Nagar Palika 198,471 102,804 94,331 26,855 63.88
30 Hardoi Hardoi UA Nagar Palika 197,046 104,201 92,845 21,719 83.27
31 Fatehpur Fatehpur City Nagar Palika 193,801 101,620 92,181 22,078 77.69
32 Raebareli Raebareli City Nagar Palika 191,625 99,844 91,212 18,866 82.97
33 Orai Jalaun UA Nagar Palika 190,625 101,434 89,191 20,424 83.35
34 Sitapur Sitapur UA Nagar Palika 188,230 99,129 89,101 19,721 83.02
35 Bahraich Bahraich City Nagar Palika 186,241 98,529 87,712 22,828 75.3
36 Modinagar Ghaziabad UA Nagar Palika 182,811 97,335 85,476 21,441 87.03
37 Unnao Unnao City Nagar Palika 178,681 94,080 84,601 18,604 83.72
38 Jaunpur Jaunpur City Nagar Palika 168,128 88,704 79,424 18,033 82.11
39 Lakhimpur Lakhimpur Kheri UA Nagar Palika 164,925 88,908 77,017 18,174 83.80
40 Hathras Hathras UA Nagar Palika 161,289 86,028 75,261 20,279 78.05
41 Banda Banda UA Nagar Palika 160,432 85,473 74,959 18,317 83.61
42 Pilibhit Pilibhit UA Nagar Palika 160,146 84,546 75,600 16,089 72.30
43 Barabanki Barabanki UA Nagar Palika 154,692 77,766 69,065 16,093 81.15
44 Khurja Bulandshahr UA Nagar Palika 142,636 75,384 67,252 20,072 72.75
45 Gonda Gonda UA Nagar Palika 138,929 71,475 67,454 15,608 80.32
46 Mainpuri Mainpuri CITY Nagar Palika 133,078 69,788 63,290 16,371 85.66
47 Lalitpur Lalitpur City Nagar Palika 133,041 69,548 63,493 16,193 83.96
48 Etah Etah UA Nagar Palika 131,023 69,446 61,577 15,890 85.62
49 Deoria Deoria City Nagar Palika 129,570 67,754 61,816 13,821 93.73
50 Badaun Badaun UA Nagar Palika 126,000 64,000 62,000 17,613 87.00
51 Ghazipur Ghazipur UA Nagar Palika 121,136 63,689 57,447 13,986 84.97
52 Sultanpur Sultanpur UA Nagar Palika 116,211 61,062 55,149 12,368 87.61
53 Azamgarh Azamgarh UA Nagar Palika 116,165 60,678 55,487 13,287 86.27
54 Bijnor Bijnor UA Nagar Palika 115,381 60,656 54,725 14,499 77.90
55 Sahaswan Budaun UA Nagar Palika 114,921 59,421 55,500 15,644 71.00
56 Basti Basti City Nagar Palika 114,651 60,126 54,525 12,568 85.29
57 Chandausi Sambhal City Nagar Palika 114,254 60,238 54,016 14,417 72.63
58 Akbarpur Ambedkar Nagar City Nagar Palika 111,594 57,560 54,034 14,037 76.94
59 Ballia Ballia UA Nagar Palika 111,287 59,340 51,947 11,522 86.65
60 Tanda Ambedkar Nagar City Nagar Palika 109,539 55,946 53,593 16,147 69.25
61 Greater Noida Gautam Budh Nagar City Notified Area 107,676 58,662 49,014 15,517 86.54
62 Shikohabad Firozabad City Nagar Palika 107,300 57,017 50,283 12,956 81.68
63 Shamli Shamli City Nagar Palika 147,233 57,236 49,997 13,724 81.97
64 Awagarh Etah City Nagar Palika 102,106 54,335 48,771 13,386 71.44
65 Kasganj Kasganj City Nagar Palika 101,241 53,507 47,734 13,043 78.56
* UA=Urban agglomeration, CT=Census Town

See also

References

  1. ^ "State division of Uttar Pradesh". Government of India. Retrieved 22 July 2012.
  2. ^ a b c "Uttar Pradesh Population 2011". census2011.co.in (This is a scraper site, and is not an Indian government website.). Retrieved 8 October 2012.
  3. ^ "Ranking of States and Union territories by population size : 1991 and 2001" (PDF). Government of India (2001). Census of India. pp. 5–6. Retrieved 12 December 2008.
  4. ^ "Size, Growth rate and population distribution" (PDF). Government of India. 2011 Census of India. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
  5. ^ "District Census 2011". census2011.co.in (This is a scraper site, and is not an Indian government website.). Retrieved 8 October 2012.
  6. ^ "List of towns: Census of India 2001" (PDF). Government of India. 2001 Census of India. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
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