About Matola Village

Matola is a small village in Dalhousie tehsil, in the district of Chamba, Himachal Pradesh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 287, made up of 152 males and 135 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 888 females per 1000 males. The village covers 57.72 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 176306, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Matola compares

By the 2011 count Matola is the 46th largest of the 119 villages in the tehsil, which puts it close to average, where the typical village holds 304 residents. Its 57.72 hectares work out to about 5.0 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, the shortfall of women against men is wide, well below the tehsil average of 1025.

Getting to Matola

Matola is reached by bus from a few kilometres away, with rail a longer trip. The census records public bus service for Matola as Available within <5 km distance. Private bus service is recorded as Available within <5 km distance. For rail, the census notes the nearest railway station as Available within 10+ km distance. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

How far is Matola from other places

Matola lies about 11 km from Chamba, and the nearest railway station is Nurpur Road, about 35 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 Matola

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

• Guthri under 2 km
• Dabrehn under 2 km
• Sangrehan under 2 km
• Drabbar under 2 km
• Guniala under 2 km
• Kalatope R F 1.7 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.