About Dhahan Village

Dhahan is a mid sized village in Nawanshahr tehsil, in the district of Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar, Punjab. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 1,309, made up of 643 males and 666 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,036 females per 1000 males. The village covers 274 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 144505, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Dhahan compares

By the 2011 count Dhahan is the 90th largest of the 272 villages in the tehsil, which puts it a little above average, where the typical village holds 1,187 residents. Its 274 hectares work out to about 4.8 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, well above the tehsil average of 975.

Getting to Dhahan

Dhahan 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 Dhahan 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 Dhahan from other places

Dhahan lies about 14 km from Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar, and the nearest railway station is Malupota, about 2.2 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 Dhahan

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

• Lalpur under 2 km
• Bisla under 2 km
• Malopota 1.8 km
• Mallah Sodhian 1.8 km
• Dhandhua 1.8 km
• Kaleran 2.0 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.