Kanpur

Commercial and industrial city and capital of Kanpur district, Uttar Pradesh, India, 65 km/40 mi southwest of Lucknow, on the River Ganges; population (2001 est) 2,532,100. It is the largest city in Uttar Pradesh, and industries include cotton, wool, jute, chemicals, plastics, iron, and steel. It has benefited from its rail links with Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), particularly during the growth of its cotton industry in the last century. It is the site of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (1959).

It was the scene of a massacre of British inhabitants by Nana Sahib in 1857, during the Indian Mutiny.