About Karigawan Village

Karigawan is a mid sized village in Mohania tehsil, in the district of Kaimur, Bihar. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 1,082, made up of 568 males and 514 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 905 females per 1000 males. The village covers 95 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 821109, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Karigawan compares

By the 2011 count Karigawan is the 64th largest of the 150 villages in the tehsil, which puts it a little below average, where the typical village holds 1,395 residents. Its 95 hectares work out to about 11 people per hectare, moderately settled. On the sex ratio, there are noticeably fewer women than men, a little below the tehsil average of 925.

Getting to Karigawan

Karigawan is well connected by rural standards, with buses in the village itself and a railway station close by. The census records public bus service for Karigawan 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 km distance. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

How far is Karigawan from other places

Karigawan lies about 84 km from Kaimur, and the nearest railway station is Pusauli, about 2.9 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 Karigawan

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

• Bhopatpur under 2 km
• Pusauli under 2 km
• Barhaulia under 2 km
• Barhuli under 2 km
• Bhitti under 2 km
• Kewrhi 2.1 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.