About Kolani Village

Kolani is a small village in Palampur tehsil, in the district of Kangra, Himachal Pradesh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 165, made up of 84 males and 81 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 964 females per 1000 males. The village covers 144.14 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 176061, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Kolani compares

By the 2011 count Kolani is the 294th largest of the 365 villages in the tehsil, which puts it among the smaller settlements locally, where the typical village holds 469 residents. Its 144.14 hectares work out to about 1.1 people per hectare, very thinly settled, with most of its land uninhabited. On the sex ratio, the balance between women and men is close to even, though that is well below the tehsil average of 1062.

Getting to Kolani

Kolani 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 Kolani as Available within <5 km distance. Private bus service is recorded as Available. For rail, the census notes the nearest railway station as Available. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

How far is Kolani from other places

Kolani lies about 30 km from Kangra, and the nearest railway station is Patti Rajpura, about 8.2 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 Kolani

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

• Gorat under 2 km
• Gaihr under 2 km
• Lahnga under 2 km
• Saperu under 2 km
• Rachhiara 1.6 km
• Gont 1.8 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.