About Patahana Village

Patahana is a mid sized village in Machhlishahr tehsil, in the district of Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 1,027, made up of 534 males and 493 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 923 females per 1000 males. The village covers 163.67 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 222201, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Patahana compares

By the 2011 count Patahana is the 248th largest of the 481 villages in the tehsil, which puts it a little below average, where the typical village holds 1,380 residents. Its 163.67 hectares work out to about 6.3 people per hectare, moderately settled. On the sex ratio, there are noticeably fewer women than men, well below the tehsil average of 1061.

Getting to Patahana

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

Patahana lies about 39 km from Jaunpur, and the nearest railway station is Sri Krishna Nagar, about 17 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 Patahana

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

• Khagalpur under 2 km
• Alaiya under 2 km
• Rangawa under 2 km
• Vangawan under 2 km
• Haripur Ta Alaiya under 2 km
• Naqbaharipur under 2 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.