Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Nagar district is the newest and 72nd district of the state of Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh abbreviation U.P. , is a state located in the northern part of India. With a population of over 200 million people, it is India's most populous state, as well as the world's most populous sub-national entity...

 in northern India

India

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. This district is part of Faizabad division

Faizabad Division

See also: Faizabad Faizabad division is an administrative geographical unit of Uttar Pradesh state in India. Faizabad is the administrative headquarters of the division. The division consists of districts of :* Faizabad,...

. It is named after Chhatrpati Shahuji Maharaj, a social reformer in Maharashtra. The district covers an area of 3,070 km². Gauriganj town is the administrative headquarters of ths district. This district came into existence on 1 July, 2010 by merging three tehsils of the erstwhile Sultanpur district

Sultanpur District

Sultanpur District is a district in the state of Uttar Pradesh in northern India. The district is a part of Faizabad Division. Its administrative head is Sultanpur.-History:...

, namely, Amethi

Amethi

Amethi is a city and a municipal board in Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Nagar district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is the headquarters of the district. Amethi district officially named after Chhatrapati Sahuji Maharaj, is a newest and 72nd district in the state of Uttar Pradesh in...

, Gauriganj and Musafirkhana

Musafirkhana

Musafirkhana is a town and a nagar panchayat in Sultanpur district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.-Geography:Musafirkhana is located at . It has an average elevation of 102 metres .-Demographics:...

 and two tehsils of the erstwhile Raebareli district

Raebareli District

Raebareli District is a district of Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. The town of Raebareli is the district headquarters. The district is part of Lucknow Division.-Raebareli District in 1911:...

, namely, Salon and Tiloi.

Divisions

The district comprises 5 tehsils, 16 development blocks, 17 police stations and 401 lekhpal areas. These tehsils are: Gauriganj, Amethi, Musafirkhana, Salon and Tiloi. Amethi is the largest city in this district.

The district comprises 5 Vidhan Sabha

Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha

The Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha is the lower house of the bicameral legislature of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It has a total of 404 members including one Anglo-Indian member who is nominated by the Governor. Till 1967, it had a strength of 431 members including one nominated Anglo-Indian...

 constituencies, namely, Gauriganj

Gauriganj

Gauriganj is a village development committee in Jhapa District in the Mechi Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 8,013 people living in 1618 individual households....

, Jagdishpur, Amethi

Amethi

Amethi is a city and a municipal board in Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Nagar district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is the headquarters of the district. Amethi district officially named after Chhatrapati Sahuji Maharaj, is a newest and 72nd district in the state of Uttar Pradesh in...

, Tiloi and Salon

Salon, India

Salon is a town and a Tehsil as well as Nagar Panchayat in Chhatrapati Sahuji Maharaj Nagar district in the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.-Geography:Salon is located at . It has an average elevation of 110 metres ....

. All of these are part of Amethi Lok Sabha constituency

Amethi (Lok Sabha constituency)

Amethi Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 80 Lok Sabha constituencies in Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. This constituency covers the entire Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Nagar district-Assembly segments:...

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