About Karanja Village

Karanja is a small village in Paranda tehsil, in the district of Osmanabad, Maharashtra. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 418, made up of 226 males and 192 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 850 females per 1000 males. The village covers 512.04 hectares hectares.

Karanja Overview

Census 2011 figures for Karanja village
Description	Value
State	Maharashtra
District	Osmanabad
Tehsil	Paranda
Area (hectares)	512.04 hectares
Population	418
Male Population	226
Female Population	192
Sex Ratio (females per 1000 males)	850
Bus Service (public)	Available within village
Bus Service (private)	Available within 5 - 10 km distance
Nearest Railway Station	Available within 10+ km distance

How Karanja compares

By the 2011 count Karanja is the 87th largest of the 94 villages in the tehsil, which puts it among the smaller settlements locally, where the typical village holds 1,287 residents. Its 512.04 hectares work out to about 0.8 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 892.

Getting to Karanja

Karanja is served by buses within the village, though the nearest railway station is further out. The census records public bus service for Karanja as Available within village. Private bus service is recorded as Available within 5 - 10 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 Karanja from other places

Karanja lies about 64 km from Osmanabad, and the nearest railway station is Chinkhill, about 13 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 Karanja
Tehsil headquarters	Paranda	6.3 km
Nearest railway station	Chinkhill	13 km
Nearest town	Kurduvādi	14 km
District headquarters	Osmanabad	64 km

Villages closest to Karanja

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

As per the Census of India 2011, Karanja village had a population of 418. That makes it the 87th largest of the 94 villages in the tehsil, among the smaller settlements locally for the tehsil, where the typical village holds 1,287 residents.

Karanja village has 226 males and 192 females as recorded in the 2011 census.

Working from the 2011 counts, Karanja has about 850 females for every 1000 males. In short, the shortfall of women against men is wide, well below the tehsil average of 892.

Karanja covers 512.04 hectares as recorded in the census. Against its 2011 population that is roughly 0.8 people per hectare, very thinly settled, with most of its land uninhabited.

Karanja falls under Paranda tehsil of Osmanabad district in Maharashtra.

The nearest railway station to Karanja is Chinkhill, about 13 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 5 - 10 km distance for Karanja.

Karanja is about 64 km from Osmanabad in a straight line. Road distance is longer, usually by a quarter to a half again, depending on the route.

Karanja is in Paranda tehsil of Osmanabad district. Paranda is about 6.3 km away. Chinkhill is about 13 km away. Kurduvādi is about 14 km away. Straight-line distances are a guide to how far out the village sits, not a driving figure.