Kanpur division
Kanpur division is an administrative geographical unit of Uttar Pradesh state of India. Kanpur is the administrative headquarters of the division. Kanpur was formerly spelled Cawnpore. The division consists of six districts:
| Kanpur division, Uttar Pradesh | |
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| Districts | 1. Kanpur Dehat, 2. Kanpur Nagar, 3. Auraiya, 4. Kannauj, 5. Farrukhabad, 6. Etawah |
| Area | 14,810 km2 (5,720 sq mi) |
| Population | 12,873,369 (2011)[1] |
Literacy rates
Kanpur division is the most literate division in Uttar Pradesh with literacy rates of:
- Auraiya- 78.95%
- Etawah- 78.41%
- Farrukhabad- 73.4%
- Kanpur Dehat- 75.78%
- Kanpur- 79.65%
- Kannauj- 72.70%
History of administrative districts in Kanpur Division
Kanpur division was earlier part of the Allahabad division. In the year, 2000, the Mayawati government did a major reshuffle of the Allahabad division, and a separate Kanpur division was created.
The Kanpur district itself was bifurcated into Kanpur Dehat and Kanpur Nagar. Kanpur Dehat was renamed as Ramabai Nagar, after Ramabai (1896-1935), the wife of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar. In 2012 the name was changed back to Kanpur Dehat (though the 2011 Indian census uses the name "Kanpur Dehat").
| Rank | Metropolitan Area | Area (km sq.) | 2011 (Provisional figures) | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kanpur | 450 | 2,920,067 | Includes Kanpur Cantonment and Chakeri |
| 2 | Farrukhabad | 40 | 275,754 | Includes Fatehgarh |
| 3 | Etawah | 35 | 256,790 | |
| 4 | Auraiya | 25 | 64,598 | |
| 5 | Kannauj | 20 | 71,530 | |
| 6 | Ghatampur | 12 | 35,496 | |
| 7 | Chhibramau | 10 | 50,279 | |
| 8 | Bharthana | 10 | 38,781 |
Cities by GDP
Demographics
| Kanpur division: mother-tongue of population, according to the 2011 Census.[2] | |||||||||
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| Mother tongue code | Mother tongue | Districts | Kanpur division | ||||||
| Farrukhabad | Kannauj | Etawah | Auraiya | Kanpur Dehat | Kanpur Nagar | Total people | Percentage | ||
| 002007 | Bengali | 466 | 198 | 151 | 337 | 1,069 | 14,341 | 16,562 | 0.13% |
| 005018 | Gujarati | 11 | 13 | 54 | 104 | 6 | 576 | 764 | 0.01% |
| 006102 | Bhojpuri | 701 | 736 | 27 | 26 | 16 | 5,008 | 6,514 | 0.05% |
| 006240 | Hindi | 1,790,275 | 1,600,677 | 1,553,087 | 1,359,181 | 1,777,683 | 4,234,664 | 12,315,567 | 95.61% |
| 006340 | Kumauni | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 823 | 824 | 0.01% |
| 006489 | Rajasthani | 116 | 25 | 39 | 85 | 18 | 747 | 1,030 | 0.01% |
| 010008 | Maithili | 151 | 31 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 583 | 767 | 0.01% |
| 011016 | Malayalam | 78 | 8 | 61 | 122 | 5 | 1,667 | 1,941 | 0.02% |
| 013071 | Marathi | 39 | 16 | 55 | 77 | 7 | 4,024 | 4,218 | 0.03% |
| 014011 | Nepali | 28 | 3 | 34 | 4 | 2 | 1,865 | 1,936 | 0.02% |
| 015043 | Odia | 125 | 12 | 32 | 57 | 12 | 1,289 | 1,527 | 0.01% |
| 016038 | Punjabi | 2,644 | 73 | 134 | 163 | 51 | 36,228 | 39,293 | 0.31% |
| 017002 | Sanskrit | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 932 | 941 | 0.01% |
| 019014 | Sindhi | 140 | 4 | 212 | 14 | 0 | 6,603 | 6,973 | 0.05% |
| 020027 | Tamil | 267 | 2 | 25 | 95 | 3 | 549 | 941 | 0.01% |
| 021046 | Telugu | 24 | 22 | 6 | 134 | 0 | 709 | 895 | 0.01% |
| 022015 | Urdu | 88,252 | 47,877 | 27,532 | 18,863 | 16,829 | 263,375 | 462,728 | 3.59% |
| 040001 | English | 41 | 22 | 85 | 45 | 64 | 2,484 | 2,741 | 0.02% |
| – | Others | 1,845 | 6,895 | 272 | 234 | 418 | 4,801 | 14,465 | 0.11% |
| Total | 1,885,204 | 1,656,616 | 1,581,810 | 1,379,545 | 1,796,184 | 4,581,268 | 12,880,627 | 100.00% | |
References
- http://www.census2011.co.in/district.php
- C-16 Population By Mother Tongue – Uttar Pradesh (Report). Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
