City Details: Kanpur

A few alternate names for Kanpur are: Cawnpore, Cawnporne, KNU, Kanpur, Kanpuras, Kanpuro, Kanpwr, Kānpur, Kānpwr, kanapura

Kanpur, originally named Kanhapur and formerly anglicized as Cawnpore, is the largest city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is the primary financial and commercial centre of northern India. Founded in the year 1207 by Rajput ruler Raja Kanh Deo, Kanpur became one of the most important commercial and military stations of British Raj. Kanpur had been the major financial and industrial centre of northern India and also the ninth-largest urban economy in India. Today it is famous for its colonial architecture, gardens, sweets, dialect, and high-quality leather, plastic and textile products which are exported mainly to the West.