About Sanhalu Village

Sanhalu is a small village in Nurpur tehsil, in the district of Kangra, Himachal Pradesh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 89, made up of 40 males and 49 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,225 females per 1000 males. The village covers 8.12 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 176301, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Sanhalu compares

By the 2011 count Sanhalu is the 315th largest of the 372 villages in the tehsil, which puts it among the smaller settlements locally, where the typical village holds 426 residents. Its 8.12 hectares work out to about 11 people per hectare, moderately settled. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, well above the tehsil average of 971.

Getting to Sanhalu

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

Sanhalu lies about 49 km from Kangra, and the nearest railway station is Nurpur Road, about 20 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 Sanhalu

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

• Bedal Pur under 2 km
• Bohala under 2 km
• Dhalwara under 2 km
• Gurial Khas under 2 km
• Hegwal under 2 km
• Kohla Dalialan 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.