About Bharnu Village

Bharnu is a small village in Nurpur tehsil, in the district of Kangra, Himachal Pradesh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 84, made up of 42 males and 42 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,000 females per 1000 males. The village covers 75.15 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 176202, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Bharnu compares

By the 2011 count Bharnu is the 320th largest of the 372 villages in the tehsil, which puts it among the smaller settlements locally, where the typical village holds 426 residents. Its 75.15 hectares work out to about 1.1 people per hectare, very thinly settled, with most of its land uninhabited. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, a little above the tehsil average of 971.

Getting to Bharnu

Bharnu is reached by bus from a few kilometres away, with rail a longer trip. The census records public bus service for Bharnu 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 Bharnu from other places

Bharnu lies about 41 km from Kangra, and the nearest railway station is Nurpur Road, about 7.6 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 Bharnu

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

• Baddi Dhar under 2 km
• Ban Bhanghar under 2 km
• Bhareet under 2 km
• Bharmoli under 2 km
• Bharui under 2 km
• Blahar 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.