Auraiya District
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Auraiya district is one of the districts of Uttar Pradesh state of India, and Auraiya town is the district headquarters. [Dibiyapur] is another notable industrial town of this district which has installations of India's leading Public Sector Enterprises viz. 663 MW Combined cycle power plant of NTPC, Petrochemical plant and Gas compressor station of GAIL
On 17th September, 1997 two tehsils named Auraiya and Bidhuna were separated from district Etawah to form the new district named as Auraiya. It is situated on National Highway no. 2 (Mughal Road) and 64 km. in the east of district headquarter of Etawah and 105 km. in west of Kanpur city.
The district of Auraiya lies in the southwestern portion of Uttar Pradesh 26° 21" and 27° 01" north latitude and 78° 45" and 79° 45" east longitude and forms a part of the Kanpur Division. It is bounded on the north by the districts of Kannauj, western border adjoins tehsil Bharthana of the Etawah district and the district of Gwalior. The eastern frontier marches with the district of Kanpur Dehat, and along the south lie Jalaun.
Population
2001 census : 104,240External link
- http://auraya.nic.in : official website
| Divisions and Districts of Uttar Pradesh, India |
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| Agra Division: Agra District>Agra | Aligarh | Etah | Firozabad | Mainpuri | Hathras | Mathura |
| Allahabad Division: Allahabad District>Allahabad | Fatehpur | Kaushambi | Pratapgarh |
| Azamgarh Division: Azamgarh District>Azamgarh | Ballia | Mau |
| Bareilly Division: Badaun District>Badaun | Bareilly | Pilibhit | Shahjahanpur |
| Basti Division: Basti District>Basti | Sant Kabir Nagar | Siddharthnagar |
| Chitrakoot Division: Banda District>Banda | Chitrakoot | Hamirpur | Mahoba |
| Devipatan Division: Bahraich District>Bahraich | Balarampur | Gonda | Shravasti |
| Faizabad Division: Ambedkar Nagar District>Ambedkar Nagar | Barabanki | Faizabad | Sultanpur |
| Gorakhpur Division: Devaria District>Devaria | Gorakhpur | Kushinagar | Maharajganj |
| Jhansi Division: Jalaun District>Jalaun | Jhansi | Lalitpur |
| Kanpur Division: > Auraiya | Etawah | Farrukhabad | Kannauj | Kanpur Dehat | Kanpur Nagar |
| Lucknow Division: Hardoi District>Hardoi | Lakhimpur Kheri | Lucknow | Raebareli | Sitapur | Unnao |
| Meerut Division: > Bagpat | Bulandshahr | Gautam Buddha Nagar | Ghaziabad | Meerut |
| Mirzapur Division: Mirzapur District>Mirzapur | Sant Ravidas Nagar | Sonbhadra |
| Moradabad Division: Bijnor District>Bijnor | Jyotiba Phule Nagar | Moradabad | Rampur |
| Saharanpur Division: Muzaffarnagar District>Muzaffarnagar | Saharanpur |
| Varanasi Division: Chandauli District>Chandauli | Ghazipur | Jaunpur | Varanasi |
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