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CAPITAL: Lucknow
Uttar Pradesh, often referred to as U.P., is the most populous and fifth largest state in the Republic of India. It is notable as the most populous sub-national division in the world. U.P. has the largest urban area and population; it is possibly the state with the largest number of million-plus cities (at least seven).
Uttar Pradesh covers a large part of the highly fertile and densely populated upper Gangetic plain. It shares an international border with Nepal and is bounded by the Indian states of Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Bihar. The administrative and legislative capital of Uttar Pradesh is Lucknow; its high court is based at Allahabad. Other notable cities in Uttar Pradesh include Kanpur, Agra, Varanasi (Banaras), Meerut, Ghaziabad, Aligarh, Gorakhpur, Mathura and NOIDA.
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