About Gaglahr Village

Gaglahr is a small village in Nagrota Bagwan tehsil, in the district of Kangra, Himachal Pradesh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 252, made up of 128 males and 124 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 969 females per 1000 males. The village covers 22.16 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 176047, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Gaglahr compares

By the 2011 count Gaglahr is the 87th largest of the 148 villages in the tehsil, which puts it well below average, where the typical village holds 451 residents. Its 22.16 hectares work out to about 11 people per hectare, moderately settled. On the sex ratio, the balance between women and men is close to even, though that is well below the tehsil average of 1027.

Getting to Gaglahr

Gaglahr 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 Gaglahr 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 Gaglahr from other places

Gaglahr lies about 10 km from Kangra, and the nearest railway station is Jawalamukhi Road, about 6.5 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 Gaglahr

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

• Phaket Lahr under 2 km
• Lakrehr under 2 km
• Bher 2.9 km
• Bherara 2.9 km
• Halehr 3.0 km
• Malan Ambari 3.2 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.