About Thana Village

Thana is a mid sized village in Nurpur tehsil, in the district of Kangra, Himachal Pradesh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 559, made up of 294 males and 265 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 901 females per 1000 males. The village covers 125 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 176202, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Thana compares

By the 2011 count Thana is the 89th largest of the 372 villages in the tehsil, which puts it a little above average, where the typical village holds 426 residents. Its 125 hectares work out to about 4.5 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, there are noticeably fewer women than men, well below the tehsil average of 971.

Getting to Thana

Thana is served by buses within the village, though the nearest railway station is further out. The census records public bus service for Thana as Available within village. 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 Thana from other places

Thana lies about 44 km from Kangra, and the nearest railway station is Nurpur Road, about under 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 Thana

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

• Jasur Khas under 2 km
• Chhatroli Khas under 2 km
• Mamor under 2 km
• Matholi under 2 km
• Gulahr Pur under 2 km
• Langlahr 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.