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Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh is a state of northern India, the most populous in the country, lying across the Ganges–Yamuna plain with its capital at Lucknow. It contains Varanasi, Prayagraj, Ayodhya, Mathura and Agra, and the Buddhist sites of Sarnath and Kushinagar. Formed under British rule as the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, it took its present name in 1950.
Mentioned in 12 state histories
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