High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, more commonly the United Provinces, was a province of British India, which existed from 1856 to 1947. It corresponded approximately to the combined regions of the present-day Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. From 1856 to 1902, the region was known as the North-Western Provinces and Oudh. The Provinces were bounded on the north by Tibet, and on the north-east by Nepal; on the east and south-east by the Champaran, Saran, Shahabad, and Palamau Districts of Bengal; on the south by two of the Chota Nagpur States in the Central Provinces, Rewah and some small States in the Central India Agency, and Saugor District in the Central Provinces; on the west by the States of Gwalior, Dholpur, and Bharatpur, the Districts of Gurgaon, Delhi, Karnal, and Ambala in the Punjab, and the Punjab States of Sirmur and Jubbal.