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  1. State of N India. area 294,400 sq km/113,638
  2. sq mi capital Lucknow towns Kanpur, Varanasi,
  3. Agra, Allahabad, Meerut features most
  4. populous state; Himalayan peak Nanda Devi
  5. 7,817 m/25,655 ft population (1981)
  6. 110,858,000 famous people Indira Gandhi, Ravi
  7. Shankar language Hindi religion 80% Hindu,
  8. 15% Muslim history formerly the heart of the
  9. Mogul Empire and generating point of the
  10. Indian Mutiny 1857 and subsequent opposition
  11. to British rule; see also the United
  12. Provinces of Agra and Oudh.
  13.