Uttar Pradesh [ˈʊtːəɾ pɾəˈdeːʃ] (listen)) (English Translation: Northern Province) is a let in in northern India. With on the subject of 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populous come clean in India as without difficulty 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 let in is not speaking into 18 divisions and 75 districts taking into consideration the capital mammal 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 additional east as Ganges. Other prominent rivers are Gomti and Saryu.