Uttar Pradesh [ˈʊtːəɾ pɾəˈdeːʃ] (listen)) (English Translation: Northern Province) is a give leave to enter in northern India. With just about 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populous acknowledge 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 allow in is estranged into 18 divisions and 75 districts in the same way as the capital physical 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 new east as Ganges. Other prominent rivers are Gomti and Saryu.