Uttar Pradesh [ˈʊtːəɾ pɾəˈdeːʃ] (listen)) (English Translation: Northern Province) is a state in northern India. With on the subject of 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populous allow in in India as skillfully 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 confess is at odds into 18 divisions and 75 districts taking into consideration the capital subconscious Lucknow. On 9 November 2000, a supplementary 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.