About Nin Village

Nin is a small village in Seoni tehsil, in the district of Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 243, made up of 125 males and 118 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 944 females per 1000 males. The village covers 56.7 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 171103, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Nin compares

By the 2011 count Nin is the 46th largest of the 195 villages in the tehsil, which puts it well above average, where the typical village holds 164 residents. Its 56.7 hectares work out to about 4.3 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 1036.

Getting to Nin

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

Nin lies about 9.1 km from Shimla, and the nearest railway station is Summer Hill, about 8.9 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 Nin

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

• Jangal Nin under 2 km
• Jubar under 2 km
• Bei under 2 km
• Chatiar under 2 km
• Shirgul under 2 km
• Daila 1.7 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.