About Sunkhi Village

Sunkhi is a small village in Kandaghat tehsil, in the district of Solan, Himachal Pradesh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 202, made up of 99 males and 103 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,040 females per 1000 males. The village covers 46.3 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 173222, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Sunkhi compares

By the 2011 count Sunkhi is the 53rd largest of the 252 villages in the tehsil, which puts it a little above average, where the typical village holds 153 residents. Its 46.3 hectares work out to about 4.4 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, well above the tehsil average of 967.

Getting to Sunkhi

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

Sunkhi lies about 19 km from Solan, and the nearest railway station is Kathleeghat, about 7.3 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 Sunkhi

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

• Shakret under 2 km
• Sair under 2 km
• Shangliana under 2 km
• Nataila under 2 km
• Dhandon under 2 km
• Ghat Kumahla 1.6 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.