Jaunpur is a city and a municipal board in Jaunpur district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Jaunpur district is located to the northwest of the district of Varanasi in the eastern part of the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Jaunpur has a population of 4,476,072 people according to official census report of India 2011. Demographically, Jaunpur resembles the rest of the Purvanchal area in which it is located: a primarily rural agricultural population with high illiteracy and low human development index
