About Silangi Village

Silangi is a small village in Karnaprayag tehsil, in the district of Chamoli, Uttarakhand. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 47, made up of 25 males and 22 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 880 females per 1000 males. The village covers 26.48 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 246444, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

Silangi Overview

Census 2011 figures for Silangi village
Description	Value
State	Uttarakhand
District	Chamoli
Tehsil	Karnaprayag
Pincode	246444
Area (hectares)	26.48 hectares
Population	47
Male Population	25
Female Population	22
Sex Ratio (females per 1000 males)	880
Bus Service (public)	Available within 10+ km distance
Bus Service (private)	Available within 10+ km distance
Nearest Railway Station	Available within 10+ km distance

How Silangi compares

By the 2011 count Silangi is the 170th largest of the 202 villages in the tehsil, which puts it among the smaller settlements locally, where the typical village holds 184 residents. Its 26.48 hectares work out to about 1.8 people per hectare, very thinly settled, with most of its land uninhabited. On the sex ratio, the shortfall of women against men is wide, well below the tehsil average of 1199.

Getting to Silangi

Silangi is fairly remote, with both bus and rail more than ten kilometres away. The census records public bus service for Silangi as Available within 10+ km distance. Private bus service is recorded as Available within 10+ 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 Silangi from other places

Silangi lies about 16 km from Chamoli, and the nearest railway station is Kotdwara, about 95 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 Silangi
Tehsil headquarters	Karnaprayag	7.7 km
District headquarters	Chamoli	16 km
Nearest town	Srīnagar	50 km
Nearest railway station	Kotdwara	95 km

Villages closest to Silangi

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

As per the Census of India 2011, Silangi village had a population of 47. That makes it the 170th largest of the 202 villages in the tehsil, among the smaller settlements locally for the tehsil, where the typical village holds 184 residents.

Silangi village has 25 males and 22 females as recorded in the 2011 census.

Working from the 2011 counts, Silangi has about 880 females for every 1000 males. In short, the shortfall of women against men is wide, well below the tehsil average of 1199.

The pincode recorded for Silangi is 246444. Large villages sometimes share a pincode with neighbouring settlements.

Silangi covers 26.48 hectares as recorded in the census. Against its 2011 population that is roughly 1.8 people per hectare, very thinly settled, with most of its land uninhabited.

Silangi falls under Karnaprayag tehsil of Chamoli district in Uttarakhand.

The nearest railway station to Silangi is Kotdwara, about 95 km away in a straight line. The 2011 census recorded it as available within 10+ km distance.

The census records public bus service as Available within 10+ km distance and private bus service as Available within 10+ km distance for Silangi.

Silangi is about 16 km from Chamoli in a straight line. Road distance is longer, usually by a quarter to a half again, depending on the route.

Silangi is in Karnaprayag tehsil of Chamoli district. Karnaprayag is about 7.7 km away. Chamoli is about 16 km away. Srīnagar is about 50 km away. Straight-line distances are a guide to how far out the village sits, not a driving figure.