About Kalar Kalan Village

Kalar Kalan is a small village in Dera Gopipur tehsil, in the district of Kangra, Himachal Pradesh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 191, made up of 96 males and 95 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 990 females per 1000 males. The village covers 36.86 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 177714, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Kalar Kalan compares

By the 2011 count Kalar Kalan is the 178th largest of the 274 villages in the tehsil, which puts it well below average, where the typical village holds 416 residents. Its 36.86 hectares work out to about 5.2 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, the balance between women and men is close to even, though that is well below the tehsil average of 1082.

Getting to Kalar Kalan

The census records public bus service for Kalar Kalan 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 <5 km distance. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

How far is Kalar Kalan from other places

Kalar Kalan lies about 16 km from Kangra, and the nearest railway station is Tripal, about 4.9 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 Kalar Kalan

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

• Kalar under 2 km
• Kalar Khurd under 2 km
• Sameli under 2 km
• Lachhu under 2 km
• Seer Loharan under 2 km
• Kut Ban Tili under 2 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.