About Bhanai Village

Bhanai is a small village in Jawali tehsil, in the district of Kangra, Himachal Pradesh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 448, made up of 224 males and 224 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,000 females per 1000 males. The village covers 43.46 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 176023, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Bhanai compares

By the 2011 count Bhanai is the 83rd largest of the 184 villages in the tehsil, which puts it a little below average, where the typical village holds 570 residents. Its 43.46 hectares work out to about 10 people per hectare, moderately settled. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, though that is a little below the tehsil average of 1026.

Getting to Bhanai

Bhanai 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 Bhanai 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 Bhanai from other places

Bhanai lies about 27 km from Kangra, and the nearest railway station is Jawanwala Shahr, about 2.2 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 Bhanai

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

• Bhol under 2 km
• Bhol Khas under 2 km
• Chakban Palaura under 2 km
• Palaura Khas under 2 km
• Sahura under 2 km
• Makrahan 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.