Banda was a town and district of British India, in the Allahabad division of the United Provinces.

The northern flank of the Vindhyas known as Vindhyachal range, starts near the Yamuna in the extreme east of tahsil Mau.

It recedes from the Yamuna in a south-westerly direction-gradually rising in elevation, although nowhere above 450 metre from the mean sea level.

It leaves the district near the scared hills of Anusuiya to reappear of Godhrampur in the south-eastern part of Naraini tahsil.

The district largely consists of irregular uplands with outcrops of rocks intermingling with lowlands, which are frequently under water during the rainy season.

The district is located in the Chitrakutdham Division of Uttar Pradesh with its headquarter at Banda and lies between Lat.

[citation needed] Rabi: Wheat, barley along with gram, linseed, mustard, masoor and peas are the major crops.

In 2006 the Ministry of Panchayati Raj named Banda one of the country's 250 most backward districts (out of a total of 640).

According to the 2011 census Banda District has a population of 1,799,410,[4] roughly equal to the nation of The Gambia[5] or the US state of Nebraska.

Among Banda's languages are Bundeli, which has a lexical similarity of 72-91% with Hindi[8] (compared to 60% for German and English)[9] and is spoken by about 7,800,000 people in Bundelkhand.