About Wadi Kh Village

Wadi Kh is a small village in Rajapur tehsil, in the district of Ratnagiri, Maharashtra. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 167, made up of 79 males and 88 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,114 females per 1000 males. The village covers 376 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 416707, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Wadi Kh compares

By the 2011 count Wadi Kh is the 213th largest of the 229 villages in the tehsil, which puts it among the smaller settlements locally, where the typical village holds 665 residents. Its 376 hectares work out to about 0.4 people per hectare, very thinly settled, with most of its land uninhabited. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, though that is well below the tehsil average of 1229.

Getting to Wadi Kh

Wadi Kh is reached by bus from a few kilometres away, with rail a longer trip. The census records public bus service for Wadi Kh as Available within <5 km distance. Private bus service is recorded as Available within 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 Wadi Kh from other places

Wadi Kh lies about 48 km from Ratnagiri, and the nearest railway station is Saundal, about 2.0 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 Wadi Kh

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

• Palasamkar T Wadi under 2 km
• Hasol Tarf Saundal under 2 km
• Kondye Tarf Saundal under 2 km
• Panhale Tarf Saundal under 2 km
• Saundal under 2 km
• Watul 6.7 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.