Gorakhpur district

Gorakhpur District is a of  state in. is the administrative headquarters of the district.

The district covers an area of 3483.8 km². It is bounded by to the north,  and  districts in the east,, , and  districts to the south,  and  to the west. The district is part of.

The district was ceded by the to the  in. With this cession, Gorakhpur was raised to the status of a district. The first district collector was Mr. Routledge. In, Gorakhpur was made the headquarters of , comprising the districts of Gorakhpur,  and Azamgarh. Mr. R.M. Biad was first appointed Commissioner.

In 1865 was carved out from Gorakhpur. The latter was further split up in 1946 to form Deoria District. The third division of Gorakhpur led to the creation of Maharajganj District in.