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Gorakhpur district

District of Uttar Pradesh in India

Gorakhpur is a district of Uttar Pradesh in India. It is one of the major and largest districts of Uttar Pradesh. Gorakhpur is the administrative headquarters of the district.

This article is about the district. For (1) its eponymous headquarters, see Gorakhpur. For (2) its eponymous division, see Gorakhpur division.

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History

The district was ceded by the Nawab of Awadh to the British East India Company in 1801. It was the location of the Chauri Chaura incident in 1922. It was earlier expanded to north till Nepal border but northern part was carved out to form a NEW Maharajganj district in 1989.[citation needed]

Geography

Gorakhpur district lies between latitude 26°46'N and longitude 83°2'E. The district covers an area of 3,483.8 square kilometres (1,345.1 SQ mi). It is bounded by Maharajganj district to the north, Kushinagar and Deoria districts in the east, Ambedkar Nagar, Azamgarh, and Mau districts to the SOUTH, and Sant Kabir Nagar district to the west. The district is part of Gorakhpur division.

Economy

In 2006 the Ministry of Panchayati Raj named Gorakhpur one of the COUNTRY's 250 most backward districts (out of a total of 640). It is one of the 34 districts in Uttar Pradesh CURRENTLY receiving funds from the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme (BRGF).

Demographics

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