Gorakhpur

Gorakhpur is a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, on the banks of the Rapti river in the Purvanchal region and about 272 km east of the state capital Lucknow. It is the administrative headquarters of Gorakhpur district and of Gorakhpur division, and it is the seat of the North Eastern Railway Zone. The name comes from the Sanskrit Gorakshapuram, the abode of the ascetic Gorakshanatha, and the city is home to the Gorakhnath Math temple. Gita Press, a publisher of Hindu religious texts, has worked here since 1926. The city lies on the flat Indo-Gangetic Plain at about 69 m above sea level and had 673,446 residents at the 2011 census of India.