Barabanki is a city and a municipal board in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

[2] Previously, under the Nawabs of Awadh, the area that would become Barabanki district was divided among five chaklas: Daryabad-Rudauli, Ramnagar, Dewa-Jahangirabad, Jagdispur, and Haidargarh.

In winters day time temperature rises up to 26 to 29, and at night drop up to 11 degrees.

As per provisional data of the 2011 census, the Barabanki urban agglomeration had a population of 146,831, with 77,766 males and 69,065 females.

The Barabanki Junction railway station is on the Delhi– Basti– Gorakhpur main broad-gauge route in Uttar Pradesh.