Districts of Uttar Pradesh, grouped by division

Uttar Pradesh, the most populous state in India, has 75 districts. These districts, most of which have populations above 12 lakhs, and are grouped into 18 divisions for administrative convenience.

Division wise listing of districts

Divisions	Headquarters	Districts	Divisional Commissioner	Official Website of division	District Magistrate	Official website of district	Map
Agra division	Agra	Agra Mathura Mainpuri Firozabad	Amit Gupta	N/A	DM Agra: Prabhu Narain Singh DM Mathura: Navneet Singh Chahal DM Mainpuri: Mahendra Bahadur Singh DM Firozabad: Chandra Vijay Singh	Agra: agra.nic.in Mathura: mathura.nic.in Mainpuri: mainpuri.nic.in Firozabad: firozabad.nic.in
Aligarh division	Aligarh	Aligarh Etah Hathras Kasganj	Gaurav Dayal	N/A	DM Aligarh: Chandra Bhushan Singh DM Etah: Ankit Kumar Agrawal DM Hathras: Ramesh Ranjan DM Kasganj: Chandra Prakash Singh	Aligarh: aligarh.nic.in Etah: etah.nic.in Hathras: hathras.nic.in Kasganj: kasganj.nic.in
Allahabad division	Allahabad	Allahabad Fatehpur Kaushambi Pratapgarh	Sanjay Goyal	prayagrajdivision.nic.in	DM Allahabad: Sanjay Kumar Khatri DM Fatehpur: Apurva Dubey DM Kaushambi: Sujeet Kumar DM Pratapgarh: Dr. Nitin Bansal	Allahabad: prayagraj.nic.in Fatehpur: fatehpur.nic.in Kaushambi: kaushambi.nic.in Pratapgarh: pratapgarh.nic.in
Azamgarh division	Azamgarh	Azamgarh Ballia Mau	Vijay Vishwas Pant	N/A	DM Azamgarh: Rajesh Kumar DM Ballia: Somya Agrawal DM Mau: Amit Singh Bansal	Azamgarh: azamgarh.nic.in Ballia: ballia.nic.in Mau: mau.nic.in
Bareilly division	Bareilly	Bareilly Pilibhit Shahjahanpur Badaun	R. Ramesh Kumar	N/A	DM Bareilly: Nitish Kumar DM Pilibhit: Pulkit Khare Shahjahanpur: Indra Vikram Singh DM Badaun: Deepa Ranjan	Bareilly: bareilly.nic.in Pilibhit: pilibhit.nic.in Shahjahanpur: shahjahanpur.nic.in Badaun: budaun.nic.in
Basti division	Basti	Basti Sant Kabir Nagar Siddharthnagar	Anil Kumar Sagar	N/A	DM Basti: Saumya Agrawal DM Sant Kabir Nagar: Divya Mittal DM Siddharthnagar: Deepak Meena	Basti: basti.nic.in Sant Kabir Nagar: sknagar.nic.in Siddharthnagar: siddharthnagar.nic.in
Chitrakoot division	Banda	Banda Chitrakoot Hamirpur Mahoba	Dinesh Kumar Singh II	N/A	DM Banda: Anand Kumar Singh II DM Chitrakoot: Shubhrant Shukla DM Hamirpur: Gyaneshwar Tripathi DM Mahoba: Manoj Kumar	Banda: banda.nic.in Chitrakoot: chitrakoot.nic.in Hamirpur: hamirpur.nic.in Mahoba: mahoba.nic.in
Devipatan division	Gonda	Bahraich Balarampur Gonda Shravasti	S.V.S Rangarao	N/A	DM Bahraich: Dr. Dinesh Chandra DM Balrampur: Shruti DM Gonda: Markandey Shahi DM Shravasti: T.K. Shibu	Bahraich: bahraich.nic.in Balrampur: balrampur.nic.in Gonda: gonda.nic.in Shravasti: shravasti.nic.in
Faizabad division	Faizabad	Faizabad district Ambedkar Nagar Barabanki Sultanpur Amethi	Mahendra Prasad Agrawal	N/A	DM Faizabad: Anuj Kumar Jha DM Ambedkarnagar: Samuel Paul N DM Barabanki: Avinash Singh DM Sultanpur: Ravish Gupta DM Amethi: Rakesh Kumar Mishra	Faizabad: ayodhya.nic.in Ambedkar Nagar: ambedkarnagar.nic.in Barabanki: barabanki.nic.in Sultanpur: sultanpur.nic.in Amethi: amethi.nic.in
Gorakhpur division	Gorakhpur	Deoria Gorakhpur Kushinagar Maharajganj	Ravikumar N.G	N/A	DM Deoria: Ashutosh Niranjan DM Gorakhpur: K. Vijyendra Pandian DM Kushinagar: S. Rajalingam DM Maharajganj: Dr. Ujjwal Kumar	Deoria: deoria.nic.in Gorakhpur: gorakhpur.nic.in Kushinagar: kushinagar.nic.in Maharajganj: maharajganj.nic.in
Jhansi division	Jhansi	Jalaun Jhansi Lalitpur	Ajay Shankar Pandey	N/A	DM Jalaun: Priyanka Niranjan DM Jhansi: Andra Vamsi DM Lalitpur: A. Dinesh Kumar	Jalaun: jalaun.nic.in Jhansi: jhansi.nic.in Lalitpur: lalitpur.nic.in
Kanpur division	Kanpur	Auraiya Etawah Farrukhabad Kannauj Kanpur Dehat Kanpur Nagar	Dr. Raj Shekhar	N/A	DM Auraiya: Sunil Kumar Verma DM Etawah: Shruti Singh DM Farrukhabad: Manvendra Singh DM Kannauj: Rakesh Kumar Mishra DM Kanpur Dehat: Jitendra Pratap Singh DM Kanpur Nagar: Alok Tiwari	Auraiya: auraiya.nic.in Etawah: etawah.nic.in Farrukhabad: farrukhabad.nic.in Kannauj: kannauj.nic.in Kanpur Dehat: kanpurdehat.nic.in Kanpur Nagar: kanpurnagar.nic.in
Lucknow division	Lucknow	Hardoi Lakhimpur Kheri Lucknow Raebareli Sitapur Unnao	Ranjan Kumar	N/A	DM Hardoi: Avinash Kumar DM Lakhimpur Kheri: Dr. A. Chaurasiya DM Lucknow: Abhishek Prakash DM Raebareli: Vaibhav Srivastava DM Sitapur: Vishal Bhardwaj DM Unnao: Ravindra Kumar I	Hardoi: hardoi.nic.in Lakhimpur Kheri: kheri.nic.in Lucknow: lucknow.nic.in Raebareli: raebareli.nic.in Sitapur: sitapur.nic.in Unnao: unnao.nic.in
Meerut division	Meerut	Baghpat Bulandshahar Gautam Buddha Nagar Ghaziabad Meerut Hapur	Surendra Singh	N/A	DM Baghpat: Raj Kamal Yadav DM Bulandshahar: Ravindra Kumar II DM Gautam Buddh Nagar: Suhas L.Y DM Ghaziabad: Rakesh Singh II DM Meerut: K. Balaji DM Hapur: Anuj Singh	Baghpat: bagpat.nic.in Bulandshahar: bulandshahr.nic.in G.B Nagar: gbnagar.nic.in Ghaziabad: ghaziabad.nic.in Meerut: meerut.nic.in Hapur: hapur.nic.in
Mirzapur division	Mirzapur	Mirzapur Sant Ravidas Nagar Sonbhadra	Yogeshwar Ram Mishra	N/A	DM Mirzapur: Praveen Kumar Laxkar DM Sant Ravidas Nagar: Aaryka Akhouri DM Sonbhadra: Abhihek Singh II	Mirzapur: mirzapur.nic.in Sant Ravidas Nagar: bhadohi.nic.in Sonbhadra: sonbhadra.nic.in
Moradabad division	Moradabad	Bijnor Amroha Moradabad Rampur Sambhal	Aunjunay Kumar Singh	N/A	DM Bijnor: Umesh Mishra DM Amroha: Bal Krishna Tripathi DM Moradabad: Shailendra Kumar Singh DM Rampur: Ravindra Kumar Mandar DM Sambhal: Sanjeev Ranjan	Bijnor: bijnor.nic.in Amroha: amroha.nic.in Moradabad: moradabad.nic.in Rampur: rampur.nic.in Sambhal: sambhal.nic.in
Saharanpur division	Saharanpur	Muzaffarnagar Saharanpur Shamli	A.V Rajamouli	N/A	DM Muzaffarnagar: Selva Kumari J. DM Saharanpur: Akhilesh Singh DM Shamli: Jasjit Kaur	Muzaffarnagar: muzaffarnagar.nic.in Saharanpur: saharanpur.nic.in Shamli: shamli.nic.in
Varanasi division	Varanasi	Chandauli Ghazipur Jaunpur Varanasi	Deepak Agrawal	N/A	DM Chandauli: Sanjeev Singh DM Ghazipur: Mangla Prasad Singh DM Jaunpur: Manish Kumar Verma DM Varanasi: Kaushal Raj Sharma	Chandauli: chandauli.nic.in Ghazipur: ghazipur.nic.in Jaunpur: jaunpur.nic.in Varanasi: varanasi.nic.in

Area-wise listing of districts

Code[1]	District[2]	Headquarters	Division	Population[3]	Area[3]	Density (/km2)[3]	Map	Police Station
AG	Agra	Agra	Agra	4,418,797	4,041	1093
AL	Aligarh	Aligarh	Aligarh	3,673,889	3,788	1007
AH	Allahabad	Allahabad	Allahabad	5,954,391	5,482	1086
AN	Ambedkar Nagar	Akbarpur	Faizabad	2,397,888	2,350	1020
AM	Amethi	Gauriganj	Faizabad	2,050,133	2,651	773
JP	Amroha	Amroha	Moradabad	1,840,221	2,249	818
AU	Auraiya	Auraiya	Kanpur	1,379,545	2,016	684
AZ	Azamgarh	Azamgarh	Azamgarh	4,613,913	4,054	1138
BD	Badaun	Badaun	Bareilly	3,127,621	4,234	2368
BG	Bagpat	Baghpat	Meerut	1,303,048	5,237	249
BH	Bahraich	Bahraich	Devipatan	3,487,731	2,981	1170
BL	Ballia	Ballia	Azamgarh	3,239,774	3,349	967
BP	Balrampur	Balrampur	Devipatan	2,148,665	4,408	487
BN	Banda	Banda	Chitrakoot	1,799,410	4,402	409
BB	Barabanki	Barabanki	Faizabad	3,260,699	4,120	791
BR	Bareilly	Bareilly	Bareilly	4,448,359	2,688	1655
BS	Basti	Basti	Basti	2,464,464	4,561	540
BI	Bijnor	Bijnor	Moradabad	3,682,713	4,262	864
BU	Bulandshahr	Bulandshahr	Meerut	3,499,171	4,441	776
CD	Chandauli	Chandauli	Varanasi	1,952,756	2,541	768
CT	Chitrakoot	Chitrakoot	Chitrakoot	991,730	3,216	308
DE	Deoria	Deoria	Gorakhpur	3,100,946	2,540	1221
ET	Etah	Etah	Aligarh	1,774,480	2,431	730
EW	Etawah	Etawah	Kanpur	1,581,810	2,311	684
FZ	Faizabad	Faizabad	Faizabad	2,470,996	2,341	1056
FR	Farrukhabad	Fatehgarh	Kanpur	1,885,204	2,181	864
FT	Fatehpur	Fatehpur	Allahabad	2,632,733	4,152	634
FI	Firozabad	Firozabad	Agra	2,498,156	2,407	1038
GB	Gautam Buddha Nagar	Greater Noida	Meerut	1,648,115	720	2288
GZ	Ghaziabad	Ghaziabad	Meerut	3,343,334	1,179	2836
GP	Ghazipur	Ghazipur	Varanasi	3,620,268	3,377	1072
GN	Gonda	Gonda	Devipatan	3,433,919	4,003	858
GR	Gorakhpur	Gorakhpur	Gorakhpur	4,440,895	3,321	1337
HM	Hamirpur	Hamirpur	Chitrakoot	1,104,285	4,021	275
HA	Hapur	Hapur	Meerut	1,338,311	649	2061
HR	Hardoi	Hardoi	Lucknow	4,092,845	5,986	684
HT	Hathras	Hathras	Aligarh	1,564,708	1,840	850
JL	Jalaun	Orai	Jhansi	1,689,974	4,565	370
JU	Jaunpur	Jaunpur	Varanasi	4,494,204	4,038	1113
JH	Jhansi	Jhansi	Jhansi	1,998,603	5,024	398
KJ	Kannauj	Kannauj	Kanpur	1,656,616	2,093	792
KD	Kanpur Dehat	Akbarpur	Kanpur	1,796,184	3,021	595
KN	Kanpur Nagar	Kanpur	Kanpur	4,581,268	3,155	1452
KG	Kasganj	Kasganj	Aligarh	1,436,719	1,955	735
KS	Kaushambi	Manjhanpur	Allahabad	1,599,596	1,779	899
KU	Kushinagar	Padarauna	Gorakhpur	4,021,243	7,680	524
LK	Lakhimpur Kheri	Kheri	Lucknow	3,564,544	2,905	1227
LA	Lalitpur	Lalitpur	Jhansi	1,221,592	5,039	242
LU	Lucknow	Lucknow	Lucknow	4,589,838	2,528	1816
MG	Maharajganj	Maharajganj	Gorakhpur	2,684,703	2,952	909
MH	Mahoba	Mahoba	Chitrakoot	875,958	3,144	279
MP	Mainpuri	Mainpuri	Agra	1,868,529	2,760	677
MT	Mathura	Mathura	Agra	2,547,184	3,340	763
MB	Mau	Mau	Azamgarh	2,205,968	1,713	1288
ME	Meerut	Meerut	Meerut	3,443,689	2,559	1346
MI	Mirzapur	Mirzapur	Mirzapur	2,496,970	4,405	567
MO	Moradabad	Moradabad	Moradabad	3,126,507	2,233	1400
MU	Muzaffarnagar	Muzaffarnagar	Saharanpur	2,869,934	2,742	1047
PI	Pilibhit	Pilibhit	Bareilly	2,031,007	3,686	551
PR	Pratapgarh	Pratapgarh	Allahabad	3,209,141	3,717	863
RB	Rae Bareli	Rae Bareli	Lucknow	2,903,507	3,937	737
RA	Rampur	Rampur	Moradabad	2,335,819	2,367	987
SA	Saharanpur	Saharanpur	Saharanpur	3,466,382	3,689	940
SK	Sant Kabir Nagar	Khalilabad	Basti	2,199,774	2,390	920
SR	Sant Ravidas Nagar	Gyanpur	Mirzapur	1,715,183	1,646	1042
SM	Sambhal	Sambhal	Moradabad	1,578,213	1,015	1555
SJ	Shahjahanpur	Shahjahanpur	Bareilly	3,006,538	4,388	685
SH	Shamli	Shamli	Saharanpur	1,273,578	1,266	1006
SV	Shravasti	Shravasti	Devipatan	1,117,361	1,640	681
SN	Siddharthnagar	Siddharthnagar	Basti	2,559,297	2,895	884
SI	Sitapur	Sitapur	Lucknow	4,483,992	5,743	781
SO	Sonbhadra	Robertsganj	Mirzapur	1,862,559	6,905	270
SU	Sultanpur	Sultanpur	Faizabad	2,249,036	2,457	915
UN	Unnao	Unnao	Lucknow	3,108,367	4,558	682
VA	Varanasi (Kashi)	Varanasi	Varanasi	3,676,841	1,535	2395

Demand for new Districts

Uttar Pradesh Cabinet Minister and MLA from Aonla, Dharampal Singh demanded new Aonla District to be carved out of Bareilly District.^[4]