Administrative divisions of Uttar Pradesh

The northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, which borders Nepal, comprises 18 administrative divisions. Within these 18 divisions, there are a total of 75 districts. The following table shows the name of each division, its administrative capital city, its constituent districts, and a map of its location.
These divisions and districts are primarily constituted for land revenue and general administration.

Current divisions

Currently 75 districts are divided into 18 divisions.

Divisions	Formed	Headquarters	Districts	Map
Agra division	Pre-Independence	Agra	Agra Firozabad Mathura Mainpuri
Aligarh division	17 April 2008	Aligarh	Aligarh Etah Hathras Kasganj
Ayodhya division	Pre-Independence	Ayodhya	Ambedkar Nagar Amethi Ayodhya Barabanki Sultanpur
Azamgarh division	15 November 1994 '	Azamgarh	Azamgarh Ballia Mau
Bareilly division	Pre-Independence	Bareilly	Badaun Bareilly Pilibhit Shahjahanpur
Basti division	14 June 1997 '	Basti	Basti Sant Kabir Nagar Siddharthnagar
Chitrakootdham division	21 November 1997 '	Banda	Banda Chitrakoot Hamirpur Mahoba
Devipatan division	21 November 1997 '	Gonda	Bahraich Balarampur Gonda Shravasti
Gorakhpur division	Pre-Independence	Gorakhpur	Deoria Gorakhpur Kushinagar Maharajganj
Jhansi division	Pre-Independence	Jhansi	Jalaun Jhansi Lalitpur
Kanpur division	15 August 1988 '	Kanpur	Auraiya Etawah Farrukhabad Kannauj Kanpur Dehat Kanpur Nagar
Lucknow division	Pre-Independence	Lucknow	Hardoi Lakhimpur Kheri Lucknow Raebareli Sitapur Unnao
Meerut division	Pre-Independence	Meerut	Baghpat Bulandshahar Gautam Buddha Nagar Ghaziabad Hapur Meerut
Moradabad division	14 September 1980 '	Moradabad	Amroha Bijnor Moradabad Rampur Sambhal
Prayagraj division	Pre-Independence	Prayagraj	Fatehpur Kaushambi Pratapgarh Prayagraj
Saharanpur division	21 November 1997 '	Saharanpur	Muzaffarnagar Saharanpur Shamli
Varanasi division	Pre-Independence	Varanasi	Chandauli Ghazipur Jaunpur Varanasi
Vindhyachal division	14 June 1997 '	Mirzapur	Mirzapur Sant Ravidas Nagar Sonbhadra

Original Divisions with their original districts during Independence

During the formation of State of Uttar Pradesh, it consisted of 49 districts divided into 10 divisions.

Divisions	Headquarters	Districts
2nd or Agra division	Agra	Agra Aligarh Etah Mathura Mainpuri
10th or Ayodhya division	Faizabad	Faizabad Bahraich Barabanki Gonda Pratapgarh Sultanpur
3rd or Bareilly division	Bareilly	Badaun Bareilly Bijnor Moradabad Pilibhit Shahjahanpur
7th or Gorakhpur division	Gorakhpur	Azamgarh Basti Deoria Gorakhpur
5th or Jhansi division	Jhansi	Banda Hamirpur Jalaun Jhansi
9th or Lucknow division	Lucknow	Hardoi Lakhimpur Kheri Lucknow Raebareli Sitapur Unnao
8th or Kumaon division	Nainital	Nainital Almora Garhwal
1st or Meerut division	Meerut	Bulandshahar Dehra Dun Meerut Muzaffarnagar Saharanpur
4th or Prayagraj division	Allahabad	Etawah Farrukhabad Fatehpur Cawnpore Allahabad
6th or Varanasi division	Benaras	Ballia Ghazipur Jaunpur Mirzapur Benaras

There were three native principalities which existed outside the regular revenue administration which were later incorporated into it. Rampur State was made a district and was transferred to Rohilkhand division and later to newly formed Moradabad division. Benaras State was integrated with Varanasi district and Varanasi division. Tehri Garhwal State was carved into several hilly districts and a new Garhwal division was created in 1969 with Pauri district as its headquarters along with transferring of Dehradun district from Meerut division to Garhwal division. Pratapgarh district was transferred from Ayodhya division to Prayagraj division in 1988. Ballia district was transferred from Varanasi division when Azamgarh division was formed after separation from Gorakhpur division in 1994. When Uttarakhand got separated from Uttar Pradesh in 2000, Kumaon division and Garhwal division were incorporated into it along with newly formed Haridwar district which was transferred from Saharanpur division to Garhwal division.

Divisional Officers

Almost every department in Uttar Pradesh Government has its divisional level officers who supervise, review and guide its district level officers. There are many important divisional level committees and meetings chaired by concerned Divisional Commissioner which take inter-departmental decisions such as divisional crime and law & order review meeting, divisional security committee, divisional level monitoring committee for development work, regional transport authority etc. Every divisional headquarter district has a state guest-house known as Circuit House.

Demand for integrated Divisional Office Complexes

After the state government approved integrated divisional office complexes for Gorakhpur and Varanasi division which will have offices of all divisional officers under one roof. The opposition alleged favouritism for these two divisions as they are located in Chief Minister’s and Prime Minister’s constituencies.