Maharajganj district .The district was carved out from the erstwhile Gorakhpur district on 2 October 1989. In 2006 the Ministry of Panchayati Raj named Maharajganj one of the country's 250 most backward districts .
Agra , Bareilly , Aligarh , Allahabad , Lucknow , Gorakhpur , Moradabad , Kanpur , Varanasi , Ferozabad , Faizabad , Muzaffarnagar , Jhansi , Fatehpur , Mathura