Gorakhpur district

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?Gorakhpur Uttar Pradesh • India
Gorakhpur
Coordinates: 26°33′N 83°09′E / 26.55, 83.15
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)
District(s)	Gorakhpur
Website: http://gorakhpur.nic.in

Coordinates: 26°33′N 83°09′E / 26.55, 83.15 Gorakhpur District is a District of Uttar Pradesh state in India. Gorakhpur is the administrative headquarters of the district.

The district covers an area of 3483.8 km². 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.

The district was ceded by the Nawab of Awadh to the British East India Company in 1801. With this cession, Gorakhpur was raised to the status of a district. The first district collector was Mr. Routledge. In 1829, Gorakhpur was made the headquarters of Gorakhpur Division, comprising the districts of Gorakhpur, Ghazipur and Azamgarh. Mr. R.M. Biad was first appointed Commissioner.

In 1865 Basti District was carved out from Gorakhpur. The latter was further split up in 1946 to form Deoria District. The third division of Gorakhpur led to the creation of Maharajganj District in 1989.

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Gorakhpur District

Divisions and districts of Uttar Pradesh, India
Agra division: Agra \| Aligarh \| Etah \| Firozabad \| Mainpuri \| Hathras \| Mathura
Allahabad division: Allahabad \| Fatehpur \| Kaushambi \| Pratapgarh
Azamgarh division: Azamgarh \| Ballia \| Mau
Bareilly division: Badaun \| Bareilly \| Pilibhit \| Shahjahanpur
Basti division: Basti \| Sant Kabir Nagar \| Siddharthnagar
Chitrakoot division: Banda \| Chitrakoot \| Hamirpur \| Mahoba
Devipatan division: Bahraich \| Balarampur \| Gonda \| Shravasti
Faizabad division: Ambedkar Nagar \| Barabanki \| Faizabad \| Sultanpur
Gorakhpur division: Devaria \| Gorakhpur \| Kushinagar \| Maharajganj
Jhansi division: Jalaun \| Jhansi \| Lalitpur
Kanpur division: \| Auraiya \| Etawah \| Farrukhabad \| Kannauj \| Kanpur Dehat \| Kanpur Nagar
Lucknow division: Hardoi \| Lakhimpur Kheri \| Lucknow \| Raebareli \| Sitapur \| Unnao
Meerut division: \| Bagpat \| Bulandshahr \| Gautam Buddha Nagar \| Ghaziabad \| Meerut
Mirzapur division: Mirzapur \| Sant Ravidas Nagar \| Sonbhadra
Moradabad division: Bijnor \| Jyotiba Phule Nagar \| Moradabad \| Rampur
Saharanpur division: Muzaffarnagar \| Saharanpur
Varanasi division: Chandauli \| Ghazipur \| Jaunpur \| Varanasi