Uttar Pradesh [ˈʊtːəɾ pɾəˈdeːʃ] (listen)) (English Translation: Northern Province) is a allow in in northern India. With around 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populous make a clean breast in India as skillfully as the most populous country subdivision in the world. It was created upon 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 divided into 18 divisions and 75 districts following the capital mammal Lucknow. On 9 November 2000, a additional 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 extra east as Ganges. Other prominent rivers are Gomti and Saryu.