Kushinagar district

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Kushinagar District is a district of Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. Padarauna is the district headquarters. The district is named for Kushinagar, a Buddhist pilgrimage site where Gautama Buddha attained parinirvana in the 6th or 5th century BCE.

Kushinagar District is bounded on the east by Bihar state, on the southwest by Deoria District, on the west by Gorakhpur District, and on the northwest by Maharajganj District. It is part of Gorakhpur Division.

Location Kushinagar is situated 50 kilometre east of Gorakhpur on national highway no-28. Te state of Bihar starts after about 20 km east of Kushinagar. It is a small town and contains Buddha post-graduate college, Buddha intermediate college and many schools. It has a three star hotel too.

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Divisions and districts of Uttar Pradesh, India
Agra division: Agra | Aligarh | Etah | Firozabad | Mainpuri | Hathras | Mathura
Allahabad division: Allahabad | Fatehpur | Kaushambi | Pratapgarh
Azamgarh division: Azamgarh | Ballia | Mau
Bareilly division: Badaun | Bareilly | Pilibhit | Shahjahanpur
Basti division: Basti | Sant Kabir Nagar | Siddharthnagar
Chitrakoot division: Banda | Chitrakoot | Hamirpur | Mahoba
Devipatan division: Bahraich | Balarampur | Gonda | Shravasti
Faizabad division: Ambedkar Nagar | Barabanki | Faizabad | Sultanpur
Gorakhpur division: Devaria | Gorakhpur | Kushinagar | Maharajganj
Jhansi division: Jalaun | Jhansi | Lalitpur
Kanpur division: | Auraiya | Etawah | Farrukhabad | Kannauj | Kanpur Dehat | Kanpur Nagar
Lucknow division: Hardoi | Lakhimpur Kheri | Lucknow | Raebareli | Sitapur | Unnao
Meerut division: | Bagpat | Bulandshahr | Gautam Buddha Nagar | Ghaziabad | Meerut
Mirzapur division: Mirzapur | Sant Ravidas Nagar | Sonbhadra
Moradabad division: Bijnor | Jyotiba Phule Nagar | Moradabad | Rampur
Saharanpur division: Muzaffarnagar | Saharanpur
Varanasi division: Chandauli | Ghazipur | Jaunpur | Varanasi