About Barachap Village

Barachap is a small village in Bijaipur tehsil, in the district of Gopalganj, Bihar. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 105, made up of 49 males and 56 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,143 females per 1000 males. The village covers 34 hectares hectares.

How Barachap compares

By the 2011 count Barachap is the 110th largest of the 117 villages in the tehsil, which puts it among the smaller settlements locally, where the typical village holds 1,090 residents. Its 34 hectares work out to about 3.1 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, well above the tehsil average of 1101.

Getting to Barachap

Barachap is served by buses within the village, though the nearest railway station is further out. The census records public bus service for Barachap as Available within village. Private bus service is recorded as Available within <5 km distance. For rail, the census notes the nearest railway station as Available within 5 - 10 km distance. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

How far is Barachap from other places

Barachap lies about 40 km from Gopalganj, and the nearest railway station is Nonapar, about 12 km away. The figures below are straight-line distances from the village to each place. A road journey is longer, usually by a quarter to a half again.

Villages closest to Barachap

These are the nearest recorded villages by distance rather than by name, all of them in Bijaipur tehsil.

• Sukhlal Chhapar under 2 km
• Suaraha under 2 km
• Belwa under 2 km
• Chikwaliya under 2 km
• Kotia under 2 km
• Birwat under 2 km

Source: Census of India 2011, the most recent completed census. Figures have not been revised since collection. Read more on our about the data page.