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 | | Purvanchal includes the districts of Varanasi, Chandoli, Ghazipur, Jaunpur, Mirzapur, Sonbhadra, Sant Ravidas Nagar, Gorakhpur, Kushi Nagar, Deoria, Azamgarh, Mau, Maharajganj, Basti, Sant Kabir Nagar, Siddharth Nagar, Ballia, Allahabad, Pratapgarh, Kaushambi, Fatehpur, Faizabad, Ambedkar Nagar, Sultanpur, Gonda, Bahraich, Shravasti and Balrampur. |
 | | Today, Purvanchal is fast emerging as an ethnic identity for Bhojpuri speaking people of U.P., Bihar and Nepal. |
 | | The above list of 28 districts that has been notified at one stage of the development of the Purvanchal or 'eastern U.P.' concept, by the U.P. government is based on economic considerations and those of contiguity and not that of ethnicity. |
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