About Sotran Village

Sotran 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 858, made up of 440 males and 418 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 950 females per 1000 males. The village covers 88 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 144505, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Sotran compares

By the 2011 count Sotran is the 168th largest of the 272 villages in the tehsil, which puts it a little below average, where the typical village holds 1,187 residents. Its 88 hectares work out to about 9.8 people per hectare, moderately settled. 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 Sotran

Sotran 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 Sotran 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 Sotran from other places

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

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

• Hamirowal under 2 km
• Poonian under 2 km
• Chakkalal under 2 km
• Banga under 2 km
• Gosal under 2 km
• Mazari 1.5 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.