| Unnao district उन्नाव ज़िला اناو ضلع |
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Location of Unnao district in Uttar Pradesh |
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| State | Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Administrative division | Lucknow |
| Headquarters | Unnao |
| Area | 4,589 km2 (1,772 sq mi) |
| Population | 2,200,397 (2001) |
| Lok Sabha Constituencies | Unnao |
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Unnao District (Hindi: उन्नाव ज़िला, Urdu: اناو ضلع) is a district of Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. The town of Unnao is the district headquarters. The district is part of Lucknow Division.
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Situated between the cities of Lucknow & Kanpur, Unnao has a rich heritage of sword and pen, having produced great freedom fighters, poets and writers. The freedom struggle of 1857 was followed by the transfer of power from the East India Company to the British Crown. As soon as order had been restored, the civil administration was re-established in the district which was named district Unnao, with headquarters at Unnao. The size of the district was however small until 1869, when it assumed its present form. The same year the town of Unnao was constituted a Municipality. Hiuen Tsang, the famous Chinese pilgrim to India, stayed at Kannauj for 3 months in 636 AD. From here he journeyed a distance of about 26 km and reached the city of Na-fo-ti-po-ku-lo (Navadevakula) which stood on the eastern bank of Ganga. The city was about 5 km in circumference and had a magnificent Deva Temple, several Buddhist Monasteries and Stupas.
In 2006 the Ministry of Panchayati Raj named Unnao one of the country's 250 most backward districts (out of a total of 640).[1] It is one of the 34 districts in Uttar Pradesh currently receiving funds from the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme (BRGF).[1]
Unnao district is divided into 5 tehsils: Hasanganj, Safipur, Purwa, and Bighapur. There are 16 development blocks: Ganj Moradabad, Bangarmau, Fatehpur Chaurasi, Safipur, Miyanganj, Auras, Hasanganj, Nawabganj, Purwa, Asoha, Hilauli, Bighapur, Sumerpur, Bichia, Sikandarpur Sirausi, and Sikandarpur Karan.
The current elected representative from Unnao to the Lok Sabha in the Parliament of India is Annu Tandon. The district had 7 Vidhan Sabha seats, namely Unnao, Purwa, Bhagwantnagar, Hasanganj, Safipur, Harha and Bangarmau. However, after de-limitation in 2008, areas under Harha have been merged with other Vidhan Sabha seats. Thus, the district now has only 6 Vidhan Sabha seats. Other prominent Qasba of Unnao include Safipur, Neotani, Asiwan, Bangarmau, Mohaan, Purwa Maurawan and Baksar . The district magistrate is Arvind Kumar Dwivedi, IAS.
The Unnao Lok Sabha Constituency has the highest number of registered voters for the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, post de-limitation, with about 19 lakh voters.
According to the 2011 census Unnao district has a population of 3,110,595,[2] roughly equal to the nation of Mongolia[3] or the US state of Iowa.[4] This gives it a ranking of 112th in India (out of a total of 640).[2] The district has a population density of 682 inhabitants per square kilometre (1,770 /sq mi) .[2] Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 15.19 %.[2] Unnao has a sex ratio of 901 females for every 1000 males,[2] and a literacy rate of 68.29 %.[2]
Languages spoken here include Awadhi, a vernacular in the Hindi-Urdu continuum spoken by over 38 million people, mainly in the Awadh region.[5]
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