About Medinapur Village

Medinapur is a small village in Hungund tehsil, in the district of Bagalkot, Karnataka. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 408, made up of 216 males and 192 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 889 females per 1000 males. The village covers 465.53 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 587112, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

Medinapur Overview

Census 2011 figures for Medinapur village
Description	Value
State	Karnataka
District	Bagalkot
Tehsil	Hungund
Pincode	587112
Area (hectares)	465.53 hectares
Population	408
Male Population	216
Female Population	192
Sex Ratio (females per 1000 males)	889
Bus Service (public)	Available within village
Bus Service (private)	Available within village
Nearest Railway Station	Available within 10+ km distance

How Medinapur compares

By the 2011 count Medinapur is the 137th largest of the 153 villages in the tehsil, which puts it among the smaller settlements locally, where the typical village holds 1,267 residents. Its 465.53 hectares work out to about 0.9 people per hectare, very thinly settled, with most of its land uninhabited. On the sex ratio, the shortfall of women against men is wide, well below the tehsil average of 983.

Getting to Medinapur

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

Medinapur lies about 33 km from Bagalkot, and the nearest railway station is Kudala Sangama, about 21 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 Medinapur
Tehsil headquarters	Hungund	12 km
Nearest railway station	Kudala Sangama	21 km
District headquarters	Bagalkot	33 km

Villages closest to Medinapur

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

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Common questions about Medinapur

As per the Census of India 2011, Medinapur village had a population of 408. That makes it the 137th largest of the 153 villages in the tehsil, among the smaller settlements locally for the tehsil, where the typical village holds 1,267 residents.

Medinapur village has 216 males and 192 females as recorded in the 2011 census.

Working from the 2011 counts, Medinapur has about 889 females for every 1000 males. In short, the shortfall of women against men is wide, well below the tehsil average of 983.

The pincode recorded for Medinapur is 587112. Large villages sometimes share a pincode with neighbouring settlements.

Medinapur covers 465.53 hectares as recorded in the census. Against its 2011 population that is roughly 0.9 people per hectare, very thinly settled, with most of its land uninhabited.

Medinapur falls under Hungund tehsil of Bagalkot district in Karnataka.

The nearest railway station to Medinapur is Kudala Sangama, about 21 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 village and private bus service as Available within village for Medinapur.

Medinapur is about 33 km from Bagalkot in a straight line. Road distance is longer, usually by a quarter to a half again, depending on the route.

Medinapur is in Hungund tehsil of Bagalkot district. Hungund is about 12 km away. Kudala Sangama is about 21 km away. Bagalkot is about 33 km away. Straight-line distances are a guide to how far out the village sits, not a driving figure.