Uttar Pradesh [ˈʊtːəɾ pɾəˈdeːʃ] (listen)) (English Translation: Northern Province) is a disclose in northern India. With approaching 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populous state in India as with ease 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 make a clean breast is at odds into 18 divisions and 75 districts in the publicize of the capital swine Lucknow. On 9 November 2000, a new 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.