CORAH, or KORAH, a district of Hindustan, in Allahabad, called also Jehanabad, situated in the plains between the Ganges and Jumna, and between the 26th and 27th degrees of north latitude. It is in general a level country, with the exception of the high banks of the Ganges, on which the villages are usually situated, surrounded by mango trees. It produces every kind of grain except rice; also excellent crops of sugar-cane, tobacco, and cotton. It has good roads and navigable rivers on its eastern and western boundaries, on which an extensive commerce is carried on; and the country has been gradually advancing in prosperity since it was ceded to the British by the nabob of Oude in 1801.