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Uttar Pradesh

In the northern part of India, the state of Uttar Pradesh can be found which has quite a great importance for the country as a whole. Lucknow is the capital of the state. The largest city of the state is Kanpur. Although, the city of Lucknow is said to be the capital of this state but it is considered to be the official capital, however, Kanpur is considered to be the capital of the state with regard to the financial and industrial aspects.

Another worth mentioning thing is that the state of Uttar Pradesh has lot of things and places to lure and accommodate most of the tourists; hence, Agra is considered to be the tourism capital of India. It has as many as 70 districts in it which contribute to make it the biggest of the state regarding the population, as the population is supposed to be somewhere around 180 million.

The major languages spoken here are Hindi and Urdu, especially Urdu is considered to be one of the major in this part of the India with special emphasis on the Lucknow that is supposed to be the fort of some famous Urdu poets and other giants who have done a lot of good to the culture and traditions of the Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh and for India as well. However, besides these two languages there are a lot of other languages spoken for instance Awadhi, Bhojpuri, Braj, Bagheli and Bundeli are the other languages that are spoken herein, in fact, Bhojpuri is supposed to come at second place.

The state of Uttar Pradesh have a lot of importance right from its early days and it has seen a lot of empires and kingdoms through all of those grand years, the residual and traces of which can still be found in the cities of Uttar Pradesh. There are a lot of other places and monuments that compel tourists to come and pay a visit, especially, Taj Mahal of Agra has been one of the most popular monument of India and tourist are still quite keen to check that place out.