Ghazipur is a city in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. Ghazipur city is the administrative headquarters of the Ghazipur district, one of the four districts that form the Varanasi division of Uttar Pradesh. 
The city of Ghazipur also constitutes one of the seven distinct tehsils, or subdivisions, of the Ghazipur district.Ghazipur is well known for its opium factory, established by the British East India Company in 1820 and still the biggest legal opium factory in the world, producing the drug for the global pharmaceutical industry. Ghazipur lies close to the Uttar Pradesh-Bihar border, about 80 km (50 mi) east of Varanasi.




Ghazipur is located at . It has an average elevation of 89 metres (292 feet).
 India census, Ghazipur had a population of 1,079,854. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Ghazipur has an average literacy rate of 70%, higher than the national average: male literacy is 78%, and female literacy is 63%. In Ghazipur, 15% of the population are under 6 years old.

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