About Karnal Village

Karnal is a small village in Shahpur tehsil, in the district of Kangra, Himachal Pradesh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 36, made up of 19 males and 17 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 895 females per 1000 males. The village covers 28.05 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 176217, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Karnal compares

By the 2011 count Karnal is among the smallest villages in the tehsil, which puts it among the smaller settlements locally, where the typical village holds 451 residents. Its 28.05 hectares work out to about 1.3 people per hectare, very thinly settled, with most of its land uninhabited. On the sex ratio, the shortfall of women against men is wide, well below the tehsil average of 1046.

Getting to Karnal

Karnal is served by buses within the village, though the nearest railway station is further out. The census records public bus service for Karnal as Available within <5 km distance. Private bus service is recorded as Available within village. 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 Karnal from other places

Karnal lies about 25 km from Kangra, and the nearest railway station is Balle Da Pir Larth, about 18 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 Karnal

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

• Bhaled under 2 km
• Chakban Kuryala under 2 km
• Chalalan under 2 km
• Jalari under 2 km
• Mahankali under 2 km
• Nahalan 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.