| Tourism of Uttar Pradesh has attracted the tourists from all over the world for cultural diversities with multi-religious societies, variety of geographical land, variety of cuisines dotted with various holy shrines and pilgrim places, historical monuments, expanses of meadows, perennial rivers, dense forest and fertile soil.
 Uttar Pradesh was the centre of heroic activities of Rama, Krishna, Buddha, Mahavira, Ashoka and Harsha during the ancient period; Akbar, Jahangir and many other Nawabs during the medieval period; and Motilal Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru and other leaders during the modern time. The state of Uttar Pradesh occupies the prime location in the map of India as it shares its borders with Bihar to the East, Madhya Pradesh to the South, Rajasthan, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana to the west and Uttaranchal to the north and Nepal to its northern borders.
Tourist Attractions of Uttar Pradesh
The tourist attractions of Uttar Pradesh can be divided into three distinct hypsometry regions – the tourist attractions in the Himalayan region of the Northern Zone; tourist attractions around Gangetic Plain in the Central Zone and the Vindhya Hills and Plateau in the Southern Zone. The famous tourist attractions of the Himalayan Zone are Uttarkashi, Chamoli, Pithoragarh, Tehri-Garhwal, Garhwal, Almora, Nainital, Dehradun with other attractions of Badrinath, Kedaranath Banarpunch, Mount Kamety, Trishul, Dunagiri, Nanda Devi, Siwalik Range etc. The tourist attractions around Gangetic Plain of Uttar Pradesh are based on river tourism comprised of Jamuna, the Ganga and its major tributaries, the Ramganga, the Gomati, the Ghaghra and Gandak, Vindhya hills and plateau.
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