Divisions, districts and cities

 

Main articles: Administrative divisions of Uttar Pradesh, List of districts of Uttar Pradesh, and List of urban local bodies in Uttar Pradesh

See also: Western Uttar Pradesh, Eastern Uttar Pradesh, and Central Uttar Pradesh

Divisions of Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh is divided into 75 districts under these 18 divisions:^[103]

Saharanpur Moradabad Bareilly Meerut Aligarh Agra Devipatan Basti Gorakhpur Kanpur Lucknow Ayodhya Azamgarh Jhansi Chitrakoot Prayagraj Varanasi Mirzapur

list of top districts from state of Uttar Pradesh by population, ranked in respect of all India.^[104]

Rank (in India)	District	Population	Growth Rate (%)	Sex Ratio (Females per 1000 Males)	Literacy Rate (%)
13	Prayagraj	5,954,391	20.63	901	72.32
26	Moradabad	4,772,006	25.22	906	56.77
27	Ghaziabad	4,681,645	42.27	881	78.07
30	Azamgarh	4,613,913	17.11	1019	70.93
31	Lucknow	4,589,838	25.82	917	77.29
32	Kanpur Nagar	4,581,268	9.92	862	79.65
41	Agra	4,418,797	22.05	868	71.58
50	Bareilly	4