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About Yar Kalan Village

Yar Kalan is a mid sized village in Chadoora tehsil, in the district of Badgam, Jammu and Kashmir. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 1,397, made up of 776 males and 621 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 800 females per 1000 males. The village covers 71.2 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 191113, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

Yar Kalan Overview

Census 2011 figures for Yar Kalan village
Description Value
State Jammu and Kashmir
District Badgam
Tehsil Chadoora
Pincode 191113
Area (hectares) 71.2 hectares
Population 1,397
Male Population 776
Female Population 621
Sex Ratio (females per 1000 males) 800
Bus Service (public) Available within <5 km distance
Bus Service (private) Available within <5 km distance
Nearest Railway Station Available within 10+ km distance

How Yar Kalan compares

By the 2011 count Yar Kalan is the 49th largest of the 103 villages in the tehsil, which puts it a little below average, where the typical village holds 1,597 residents. Its 71.2 hectares work out to about 20 people per hectare, densely settled for a rural area. On the sex ratio, the shortfall of women against men is wide, well below the tehsil average of 924.

Getting to Yar Kalan

Yar Kalan is reached by bus from a few kilometres away, with rail a longer trip. The census records public bus service for Yar Kalan 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 Yar Kalan from other places

Yar Kalan lies about 9.5 km from Badgam, and the nearest railway station is Srinagar Railway Station, about 9.6 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.

Distances from Yar Kalan
Tehsil headquarters Chadoora under 2 km
District headquarters Badgam 9.5 km
Nearest railway station Srinagar Railway Station 9.6 km
Nearest town Pulwama 13 km

Villages closest to Yar Kalan

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

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.

Common questions about Yar Kalan

As per the Census of India 2011, Yar Kalan village had a population of 1,397. That makes it the 49th largest of the 103 villages in the tehsil, a little below average for the tehsil, where the typical village holds 1,597 residents.

Yar Kalan village has 776 males and 621 females as recorded in the 2011 census.

Working from the 2011 counts, Yar Kalan has about 800 females for every 1000 males. In short, the shortfall of women against men is wide, well below the tehsil average of 924.

The pincode recorded for Yar Kalan is 191113. Large villages sometimes share a pincode with neighbouring settlements.

Yar Kalan covers 71.2 hectares as recorded in the census. Against its 2011 population that is roughly 20 people per hectare, densely settled for a rural area.

Yar Kalan falls under Chadoora tehsil of Badgam district in Jammu and Kashmir.

The nearest railway station to Yar Kalan is Srinagar Railway Station, about 9.6 km away in a straight line. The 2011 census recorded it as available within 10+ km distance.

The census records public bus service as Available within <5 km distance and private bus service as Available within <5 km distance for Yar Kalan.

Yar Kalan is about 9.5 km from Badgam in a straight line. Road distance is longer, usually by a quarter to a half again, depending on the route.

Yar Kalan is in Chadoora tehsil of Badgam district. Chadoora is about under 2 km away. Badgam is about 9.5 km away. Srinagar Railway Station is about 9.6 km away. Straight-line distances are a guide to how far out the village sits, not a driving figure.

The closest recorded villages are Ganji Bagh (under 2 km), Ranger (1.6 km) and Gopal Saif (1.9 km).

No. It is the count from the Census of India 2011, the most recent completed census. The population of Yar Kalan today is likely to be higher.

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