About Barwa Village

Barwa is a large village in Dhaka tehsil, in the district of Purba Champaran, Bihar. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 4,979, made up of 2,604 males and 2,375 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 912 females per 1000 males. The village covers 245 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 845304, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Barwa compares

By the 2011 count Barwa is the 18th largest of the 61 villages in the tehsil, which puts it a little above average, where the typical village holds 4,526 residents. Its 245 hectares work out to about 20 people per hectare, densely settled for a rural area. On the sex ratio, there are noticeably fewer women than men, much in line with the tehsil average of 906.

Getting to Barwa

Barwa 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 Barwa as Available within village. Private bus service is recorded as Available within village. 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 Barwa from other places

Barwa lies about 22 km from Purba Champaran, and the nearest railway station is Chauradano, about 10 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 Barwa

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

• Dostiya under 2 km
• Jhitkkahi under 2 km
• Gamhariya 2.5 km
• Kharhua Chainpur 3.4 km
• Dalpat Bishunpur 8.3 km
• Jhauwa Ram 8.8 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.