About Gosal Village

Gosal 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 904, made up of 462 males and 442 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 957 females per 1000 males. The village covers 164 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 144505, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Gosal compares

By the 2011 count Gosal is the 159th largest of the 272 villages in the tehsil, which puts it a little below average, where the typical village holds 1,187 residents. Its 164 hectares work out to about 5.5 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 975.

Getting to Gosal

Gosal 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 Gosal as Available within <5 km distance. 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 Gosal from other places

Gosal lies about 9.9 km from Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar, and the nearest railway station is Banga, about 2.3 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 Gosal

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

• Sandwan under 2 km
• Batuli under 2 km
• Chakkalal under 2 km
• Bharoli under 2 km
• Sotran under 2 km
• Poonian 1.6 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.