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 Facts
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Capital: Lucknow
Area: 2,94,411 sq. km
Population: 13.91 crore
(According to 1991 census)
Language: Hindi, Urdu,
English
Temperature: Winter 7șC -
30șC, Summer 24șC - 42șC.
Best Season: October to
March
Airports: Agra, Varanasi,
Lucknow, Kanpur.
Introduction
The State is situated in
Northern part of India and is
surrounded by Tibet & Nepal in
the North, Madhya Pradesh in the
South, Haryana, Delhi &
Rajasthan in the West and Bihar
in the East. Often referred to
as the cow belt or Hindi belt,
Uttar Pradesh has been the most
dominant state in Indian poltics
and culture since Independence,
producing over half of India's
prime ministers. This is partly
because it's the nation's most
populous - it has as many
inhabitants as Brazil - and
partly because of the central
role the region plays in the
religious lanscape of Hindus.
The Ganges River, which forms
the backbone of Uttar Pradesh,
is the sacred river of Hinduism,
and four of the religion's seven
holy towns are in the state,
including Varanasi, the holiest
of them all. Uttar Pradesh is
also a places of major
importance to Buddhists for it
was at Sarnath, just outside
Varanasi, that the Buddha first
preached his message of the
middle way. Most of Uttar
Pradesh consists of the vast
Ganges plain, an area of awesome
flatness which often floods
dramatically during the monsoon.
History
Over 2000 years ago the area
that became Uttar Pradesh was
part of Ashoka's great Buddhist
empire. Muslim raids from the
north-west began in the 11th
century, and by the 16th century
the region was part of the famed
Mughal empire whose capital was
for some time at Agra and
Fatehpur Sikri. Following the
decline of the Mughal empire,
the nawabs of Avadh rose to
prominence in the central part
of the region and were
responsible for turning Lucknow
into a flourishing center for
the arts. When the British East
India Company deposed the last
nawab, the Uprising of 1857
began at Meerut, and its most
tragic events took place in
Lucknow and Kanpur. Agra was
later merged
 with Avadh and the
state became known as United
Provinence. It was renamed Uttar
Pradesh (Northern State) after
Independence, and is often known
simply as U.P.
Main
Rivers
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Ganga
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Yamuna
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Gomati
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Ghaghara
Main
Tourist and Historical Places
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Agra
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Varanasi
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Lucknow
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Chitrakoot
Main
Religious Places
Main
Folklores
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Birha
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Chaiti
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Dhola
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Kajari
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Rasia
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Alha
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Puran Bhagat
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Bhartrihari
 Main
Folk dances
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Karma
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Chanchali
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Chapeli
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Chholia
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Pandav
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Vadi-Vadin
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Lang
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Bhaila
Main
Handicrafts
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