District Profile · Uttar Pradesh
Kanpur Nagar
- 4,581,268
- Population
- 3,155 km²
- Area
- Kanpur
- Region / Division
Historically "the Manchester of the East," built on 19th-century British military-supply demand for leather and textiles. Still contributes an outsized share of India's leather exports, though the tannery cluster has contracted sharply under pollution-control restrictions since 2017.
Other districts in Kanpur