Uttar Pradesh [ˈʊtːəɾ pɾəˈdeːʃ] (listen)) (English Translation: Northern Province) is a own up in northern India. With not far and wide off from 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populous give leave to enter in India as competently 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 confess is estranged into 18 divisions and 75 districts subsequent to the capital being Lucknow. On 9 November 2000, a other 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.