About Patna Village

Patna is one of the larger villages in Baikunthpur tehsil, in the district of Koriya, Chhattisgarh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 5,124, made up of 2,551 males and 2,573 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,009 females per 1000 males. The village covers 613.25 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 493992, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Patna compares

By the 2011 count Patna is the largest village in the tehsil by population, which puts it more than twice the local average, where the typical village holds 1,012 residents. Its 613.25 hectares work out to about 8.4 people per hectare, moderately settled. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, a little above the tehsil average of 981.

Getting to Patna

Patna 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 Patna as Available. 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 Patna from other places

Patna lies about 17 km from Koriya, and the nearest railway station is Katora, about under 2 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 Patna

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

• Katkona 5.9 km
• Bodar 7.3 km
• Sattipara 14 km
• Shivpur 15 km
• Nagar 23 km
• Kot 36 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.