About Astan Village

Astan is a large village in Bardoli tehsil, in the district of Surat, Gujarat. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 3,439, made up of 1,471 males and 1,968 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,338 females per 1000 males. The village covers 480.46 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 394601, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Astan compares

By the 2011 count Astan is the 9th largest of the 81 villages in the tehsil, which puts it well above average, where the typical village holds 1,824 residents. Its 480.46 hectares work out to about 7.2 people per hectare, moderately settled. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, well above the tehsil average of 997.

Getting to Astan

Astan 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 Astan 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 Astan from other places

Astan lies about 21 km from Surat, and the nearest railway station is Gangadhara, about 2.6 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 Astan

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

• Mota 4.7 km
• Baben 7.4 km
• Sarbhon 13 km
• Tarbhon 13 km
• Vaghech Sarbhon 13 km
• Akoti 17 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.