About Basapur Village

Basapur is one of the larger villages in Hukeri tehsil, in the district of Belgaum, Karnataka. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 5,227, made up of 2,640 males and 2,587 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 980 females per 1000 males. The village covers 1431.84 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 591122, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Basapur compares

By the 2011 count Basapur is the 14th largest of the 122 villages in the tehsil, which puts it well above average, where the typical village holds 2,792 residents. Its 1431.84 hectares work out to about 3.7 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, the balance between women and men is close to even, though that is a little below the tehsil average of 999.

Getting to Basapur

Basapur is well connected by rural standards, with buses in the village itself and a railway station close by. The census records public bus service for Basapur 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 <5 km distance. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

How far is Basapur from other places

Basapur lies about 28 km from Belgaum, and the nearest railway station is Pachhapur, about 3.4 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 Basapur

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

• Hagedal under 2 km
• Karguppi 2.6 km
• Shirur 2.6 km
• Bannibagi 4.2 km
• Dadabanahatti 4.2 km
• Rustumpur 5.1 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.