Uttar Pradesh [ˈʊtːəɾ pɾəˈdeːʃ] (listen)) (English Translation: Northern Province) is a divulge in northern India. With on 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populous own up in India as competently as the most populous country subdivision in the world. It was created on 1 April 1937 as the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh during British rule, and was renamed Uttar Pradesh in 1950, giving the acronym UP. The disclose is at odds into 18 divisions and 75 districts later than the capital creature Lucknow. On 9 November 2000, a extra state, Uttarakhand, was carved out from the state’s Himalayan hill region. The two major rivers of the state, the Ganges and Yamuna, join at Triveni Sangam in Allahabad and flow other east as Ganges. Other prominent rivers are Gomti and Saryu.