Uttar Pradesh on India War Map
Taj Mahal, Varanasi's ghats and the Kumbh at Prayagraj; India's most populous state
Uttar Pradesh has 75 districts and 750 slots. Every slot costs ₹99 to claim; taking an occupied one costs double what its holder paid.
Districts of Uttar Pradesh
- Agra — The Taj Mahal, Akbar's riverside fort and Fatehpur Sikri; petha sweets
- Aligarh — Lock-making industry and the Muslim University founded by Sir Syed
- Ambedkar Nagar — Tanda's power-loom cloth and the Kichauchha Sharif dargah
- Amethi — Long a Gandhi family parliamentary seat; Gauriganj is the HQ
- Amroha — Dholak drums made from mango wood; mango orchards on the Ganga's east bank
- Auraiya — Desi ghee trade and the NTPC gas-fired plant at Dibiyapur
- Ayodhya — Birthplace of Rama by tradition; the Ram Mandir on the Saryu
- Azamgarh — Nizamabad black pottery and Mubarakpur silk weaving
- Baghpat — Sugarcane belt; Barnava is tied to the Mahabharata's lac-house tale
- Bahraich — Katarniaghat sanctuary on the Nepal border; Syed Salar Masud's dargah
- Ballia — Freed itself from British rule for days in 1942; the Ddadri cattle fair
- Balrampur — Devi Patan temple at Tulsipur and the Sohelwa forests on the Nepal border
- Banda — Kalinjar Fort in the Vindhyas, and Shajar stone from the Ken river
- Barabanki — Dewa Sharif dargah of Haji Waris Ali Shah; mentha (mint) farming
- Bareilly — Surma, zari-zardozi work and cane furniture; Ahichchhatra ruins
- Basti — Kuano river town on the Gorakhpur–Lucknow highway; sugar mills
- Bhadohi — Hand-knotted carpets, India's largest carpet-weaving cluster
- Bijnor — Sugarcane and the Ganga; Vidur Kuti, hermitage of the Mahabharata sage
- Budaun — Shamsi Jama Masjid of 1223, among India's oldest mosques
- Bulandshahr — Khurja's glazed pottery and the Narora atomic power station on the Ganga
- Chandauli — Chandraprabha sanctuary and its Rajdari falls; the 'rice bowl' of Purvanchal
- Chitrakoot — Rama's exile forest by tradition; Kamadgiri and the Mandakini ghats
- Deoria — Sugarcane country on the Bihar border; Devraha Baba's ashram at Mail
- Etah — Jalesar's brass bells and ghungroos; Patna bird sanctuary
- Etawah — Lion Safari park and the Chambal ravines
- Farrukhabad — Sankisa's Ashokan elephant capital; hand block printing; potato belt
- Fatehpur — Doab district between Ganga and Yamuna; the 1858 Bawani Imli martyrs' tree
- Firozabad — Glass bangles and glassware, India's glass-industry capital
- Gautam Buddha Nagar — Noida and Greater Noida; the Buddh F1 circuit and Jewar airport
- Ghaziabad — Industrial gateway to Delhi on the Hindon; Hindon Air Force station
- Ghazipur — Government Opium and Alkaloid Works, founded 1820; Cornwallis's tomb
- Gonda — Chhapaiya, birthplace of Swaminarayan; rice and sugar mills
- Gorakhpur — Gorakhnath Math and the Gita Press, publisher of Hindu scripture
- Hamirpur — Betwa meets the Yamuna at the district town; Bundelkhand's gateway
- Hapur — Papad making and one of north India's largest grain mandis
- Hardoi — Legend places the demon-king Hiranyakashipu's capital here; Sandila laddoos
- Hathras — Asafoetida (hing) processing hub; home of a celebrated Hindi humorist
- Jalaun — Kalpi on the Yamuna, a handmade-paper town and Birbal's birthplace
- Jaunpur — Sharqi-era Atala Masjid and the 16th-century Shahi Bridge over the Gomti
- Jhansi — Fort held by Rani Lakshmibai against the British in 1857-58
- Kannauj — Attar distilleries, India's perfume capital since Harsha's time
- Kanpur Dehat — Rural hinterland between the Yamuna and Rind rivers; HQ at Mati-Akbarpur
- Kanpur Nagar — Leather tanneries and textile mills on the Ganga; 'Manchester of the East'
- Kasganj — Soron's Ganga ghat, Sukar Kshetra, a claimed birthplace of Tulsidas
- Kaushambi — Ruins of Kausambi, capital of Vatsa, with an Ashokan pillar
- Kushinagar — Where the Buddha died; the Mahaparinirvana temple's reclining statue
- Lakhimpur Kheri — Dudhwa National Park; UP's largest district, on the Nepal border
- Lalitpur — Deogarh's Gupta-era Dashavatara temple on the Betwa
- Lucknow — Bara Imambara, chikankari embroidery and Awadhi cuisine
- Maharajganj — Sonauli crossing to Nepal and the Sohgibarwa wildlife sanctuary
- Mahoba — Chandela capital with Madan Sagar lake; Alha-Udal ballads; Desawari paan
- Mainpuri — Tarkashi brass-wire inlay on wood, a GI-tagged craft
- Mathura — Krishna's birthplace by tradition; Vrindavan temples and peda sweets
- Mau — Power-loom saree weaving town on the Tamsa (Tons) river
- Meerut — Where the 1857 uprising began; sports goods and scissors industries
- Mirzapur — Vindhyavasini temple, Chunar Fort on the Ganga; carpet weaving
- Moradabad — Brassware exports; 'Peetal Nagri', the brass city
- Muzaffarnagar — Sugarcane and one of Asia's largest gur (jaggery) markets; Shukratal
- Pilibhit — Tiger reserve on the Nepal border and the bamboo-flute (bansuri) industry
- Pratapgarh — Amla (Indian gooseberry) orchards and products; Belha Devi temple
- Prayagraj — Sangam of Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati; site of the Kumbh Mela
- Rae Bareli — Modern Coach Factory at Lalganj; the Gandhi family's Lok Sabha seat
- Rampur — Raza Library's manuscripts, folding knives and a hound breed
- Saharanpur — Wood-carving industry; mango orchards; Shakumbhari Devi temple
- Sambhal — Horn-and-bone crafts; Kalki, Vishnu's tenth avatar, is prophesied to be born here
- Sant Kabir Nagar — Maghar, where the weaver-poet died and a tomb and samadhi stand side by side
- Shahjahanpur — Birthplace of revolutionaries Ram Prasad Bismil and Ashfaqulla Khan; sugar mills
- Shamli — Sugarcane mills on the Yamuna; Kairana gave its name to the Kirana gharana
- Shrawasti — Sravasti's Jetavana monastery, where the Buddha spent many rainy seasons
- Siddharthnagar — Piprahwa stupa, a candidate for Kapilavastu; Kala Namak scented rice
- Sitapur — Naimisharanya, forest shrine where the Puranas were recited; a noted eye hospital
- Sonbhadra — Rihand Dam and coal-fired power stations; borders four states
- Sultanpur — On the Gomti; tradition names it after Rama's son Kush (Kushbhawanpur)
- Unnao — Nawabganj bird sanctuary; leather tanning; the Ganga's left bank facing Kanpur
- Varanasi — Ganga ghats, Kashi Vishwanath temple and Banarasi silk brocade
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