About Gorat Village

Gorat is a mid sized village in Palampur tehsil, in the district of Kangra, Himachal Pradesh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 787, made up of 414 males and 373 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 901 females per 1000 males. The village covers 38.82 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 176061, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Gorat compares

By the 2011 count Gorat is the 60th largest of the 365 villages in the tehsil, which puts it well above average, where the typical village holds 469 residents. Its 38.82 hectares work out to about 20 people per hectare, densely settled for a rural area. On the sex ratio, there are noticeably fewer women than men, well below the tehsil average of 1062.

Getting to Gorat

Gorat 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 Gorat 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 Gorat from other places

Gorat lies about 30 km from Kangra, and the nearest railway station is Patti Rajpura, about 7.7 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 Gorat

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

• Gaihr under 2 km
• Kolani under 2 km
• Saperu under 2 km
• Rachhiara under 2 km
• Lahnga under 2 km
• Chandpur 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.