Uttar Pradesh (ind)

Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh ranks 3,402nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Neuss, Uelzen, and Wisbech. Memorable people born in Uttar Pradesh include Vyasa, Basawan, and Yogi Adityanath. Uttar Pradesh has been the birth place of many philosophers, and painters. Uttar Pradesh is located in India.

Uttar Pradesh is a state in northern India. With over 241 million inhabitants, it is the most populated state in India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world – more populous than all but four other countries outside of India – and accounting for 16.5 percent of the population of India or around 3 percent of the total world population. The state is bordered by Rajasthan to the west, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Delhi to the northwest, Uttarakhand and Nepal to the north, Bihar to the east, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand to the south. It is the fourth-largest Indian state by area covering 243,286 km2 (93,933 sq mi), accounting for 7.3 percent of the total area of India. Lucknow serves as the state capital, with Prayagraj being the judicial capital. It is divided into 18 divisions and 75 districts. Read more on Wikipedia