About Rampur

Rampur is a city and a municipal board located in the Rampur District in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Rampur is located at Longitude 78-0-54 & 69-0-28 East and Latitude 28-25 & 29-10 North and spans area of 2367 Sq. Km.

It also gave its name to a former princely state of British India, once ruled by a Muslim Nawab from the Afghan Rohilla tribe. It was incorporated into the state of Uttar Pradesh in 1949. The region around Rampur and Bareilly still has a substantial population of Pashtuns.