A city in Uttar Pradesh, northern India, on the River Ganges; population 3,144,300 (est. 2009). It was the site of a massacre of British soldiers and European families in July 1857, during the Indian Mutiny.
Former name Cawnpore
Definition of Kanpur in US English:
Kanpur
proper nounkänˈpo͝or
A city in Uttar Pradesh, in northern India, on the Ganges River; population 3,144,300 (est. 2009).