About Gowahi Village

Gowahi is a small village in Theog tehsil, in the district of Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 258, made up of 134 males and 124 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 925 females per 1000 males. The village covers 138.97 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 171201, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Gowahi compares

By the 2011 count Gowahi is the 100th largest of the 425 villages in the tehsil, which puts it well above average, where the typical village holds 180 residents. Its 138.97 hectares work out to about 1.9 people per hectare, very thinly settled, with most of its land uninhabited. On the sex ratio, there are noticeably fewer women than men, well below the tehsil average of 990.

Getting to Gowahi

Gowahi is reached by bus from a few kilometres away, with rail a longer trip. The census records public bus service for Gowahi as Available within <5 km distance. 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 Gowahi from other places

Gowahi lies about 20 km from Shimla. 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 Gowahi

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

• Bundu under 2 km
• Chikkhar under 2 km
• Jadeog under 2 km
• Jangal Sandhu under 2 km
• Thanda under 2 km
• Balowa 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.