About Puraini Village

Puraini is a small village in Gola tehsil, in the district of Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 117, made up of 69 males and 48 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 696 females per 1000 males. The village covers 28.09 hectares hectares.

Puraini Overview

Census 2011 figures for Puraini village
Description	Value
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Gorakhpur
Tehsil	Gola
Area (hectares)	28.09 hectares
Population	117
Male Population	69
Female Population	48
Sex Ratio (females per 1000 males)	696
Bus Service (public)	Available
Bus Service (private)	Available
Nearest Railway Station	Available

How Puraini compares

By the 2011 count Puraini is the 504th largest of the 587 villages in the tehsil, which puts it among the smaller settlements locally, where the typical village holds 790 residents. Its 28.09 hectares work out to about 4.2 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, the shortfall of women against men is wide, well below the tehsil average of 1007.

Getting to Puraini

Puraini 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 Puraini as Available. Private bus service is recorded as Available. For rail, the census notes the nearest railway station as Available. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

How far is Puraini from other places

Puraini lies about 167 km from Gorakhpur, and the nearest railway station is Vyasnagar, 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.

Distances from Puraini
Nearest railway station	Vyasnagar	under 2 km
Nearest town	Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Nagar	3.9 km
Tehsil headquarters	Gola	21 km
District headquarters	Gorakhpur	167 km

Villages closest to Puraini

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

As per the Census of India 2011, Puraini village had a population of 117. That makes it the 504th largest of the 587 villages in the tehsil, among the smaller settlements locally for the tehsil, where the typical village holds 790 residents.

Puraini village has 69 males and 48 females as recorded in the 2011 census.

Working from the 2011 counts, Puraini has about 696 females for every 1000 males. In short, the shortfall of women against men is wide, well below the tehsil average of 1007.

Puraini covers 28.09 hectares as recorded in the census. Against its 2011 population that is roughly 4.2 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads.

Puraini falls under Gola tehsil of Gorakhpur district in Uttar Pradesh.

The nearest railway station to Puraini is Vyasnagar, about under 2 km away in a straight line. The 2011 census recorded it as available.

The census records public bus service as Available and private bus service as Available for Puraini.

Puraini is about 167 km from Gorakhpur in a straight line. Road distance is longer, usually by a quarter to a half again, depending on the route.

Puraini is in Gola tehsil of Gorakhpur district. Vyasnagar is about under 2 km away. Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Nagar is about 3.9 km away. Gola is about 21 km away. Straight-line distances are a guide to how far out the village sits, not a driving figure.