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Kanpur is located at in the central-western part of the state of Uttar Pradesh. The city lies at a distance of approx 475 km from national-capital New Delhi and approx 90 km from the state-capital Lucknow. It is a part of the historical region of Awadh.
In the year 2000, the Mayawati government did a major reshuffle of the Allahabad division, and a separate Kanpur division was created. The Kanpur district itself was bifurcated into Kanpur Dehat and Kanpur Nagar. Kanpur Dehat was renamed as Ramabai Nagar, after Ramabai (1896-1935), the wife of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar. In 2012, the name was ...
Kanpur District was divided into two districts, namely Kanpur and Greater Kanpur in year 1977. The two were reunited again in 1979 and again separated in 1981. Uttar Pradesh government decided to rename Kanpur Dehat district as Ramabai Nagar district on 1 July 2010. [2] In July 2012, it was returned to Kanpur Dehat.
According to the 2011 census Kanpur Nagar district has a population of 4,581,268, [1] roughly equal to the nation of Costa Rica [4] or the US state of Louisiana. [5] This gives it a ranking of 32nd in India (out of a total of 640). [1]
Nigam was born in Kanpur, United Provinces, India on 22 March 1882 to Kanhaiya Lal Nigam, a native of Kannauj but later shifted to Kanpur. [5] He was taught Urdu and Persian at home. He was admitted to Government High School, Kanpur in 1899 and passed with First Class. [5]
Trans Ganga City, a new satellite town of Unnao, is being developed in order to develop Unnao as an industrial and infrastructural hub as the region comes under Kanpur-Lucknow Counter Magnet Area. Unnao district is a part of Central Ganges Plain of the state covering an area of 4558 km 2 .
The constituency covers almost one-fourth of the area of Kanpur city and is hundred percent urban. The rest of the city comes under Akbarpur Lok Sabha constituency and the outgrowths across Ganga river are the part of Unnao Lok Sabha constituency .
Kanpur, India is the most cosmopolitan city in the state of Uttar Pradesh with vast number of ethnic groups and races. [1] The city is mostly occupied by people from Uttar Pradesh . However, beside from Uttar Pradesh there are also people from other states and countries like- Punjabis , Irish, Bengalis , South Indians , Anglo Indian , Gujaratis ...