[3] Under the Nawabs of Oudh, the area administered from Lucknow had been rather small, consisting of only the parganas immediately surrounding the city.

[1] It consists of three geographical sub-regions: the Gomti basin, the Lucknow-Uparwar plain, and the upper Sai catchments.

[1] Scattered throughout the district are the nodular limestone deposits called kankar, which appear in beds of varying thickness located 2–5 feet below the surface.

[3] Large dhak forests covered parts of the old parganas of Malihabad, Mahona, and Mohanlalganj until the late 1800s, when they were cleared to make space for farms.

[3] By the early 1900s, the only large area of dhak forest that remained was in the northeastern corner of Mahona pargana.

[3] In 2008–09, it was recorded that 13,082 hectares of Lucknow district were under forest cover, representing 5.19% of the total land area.

[3] In many places, the high banks of the Gomti are scarred with ravines, where rainfall has gradually eroded away the earth that used to be there.

[1] There are also barren usar tracts, where there is little plant growth except for some small grasses that grow during the rainy season.

[3] The climate of Lucknow district is predominantly subtropical in nature, and it experiences the effects of the South Asian monsoon.

[1]According to the 2011 census Lucknow district has a population of 4,589,838,[1] roughly equal to the nation of Georgia[5] or the US state of Louisiana.

[9] The Lucknow Pact between the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League was agreed upon at the joint session of both parties in 1915.

[3] The second most important kharif crop was historically juwar, grown in loamier soils, usually mixed with arhar, and often used as fodder.

[3] Today, the main kharif crops in Lucknow district are rice, maize, juwar, bajra, urad, mung beans, and soybeans.

[3] Most famous among Lucknow district's produce is the Dasheri mango, which are especially grown in the areas around Kakori and Malihabad.