About Palkot Range Village

Palkot Range is a small village in Lansdowne tehsil, in the district of Garhwal, Uttarakhand. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 12, made up of 8 males and 4 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 500 females per 1000 males. The village covers 42.5 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 246170, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

Palkot Range Overview

Census 2011 figures for Palkot Range village
Description	Value
State	Uttarakhand
District	Garhwal
Tehsil	Lansdowne
Pincode	246170
Area (hectares)	42.5 hectares
Population	12
Male Population	8
Female Population	4
Sex Ratio (females per 1000 males)	500
Bus Service (public)	Available within 5 - 10 km distance
Bus Service (private)	Available within village
Nearest Railway Station	Available within 10+ km distance

How Palkot Range compares

By the 2011 count Palkot Range is the 437th largest of the 465 villages in the tehsil, which puts it among the smaller settlements locally, where the typical village holds 148 residents. Its 42.5 hectares work out to about 0.3 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 1243.

Getting to Palkot Range

Palkot Range is served by buses within the village, though the nearest railway station is further out. The census records public bus service for Palkot Range as Available within 5 - 10 km distance. Private bus service is recorded as Available within village. 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 Palkot Range from other places

Palkot Range lies about 7.7 km from Garhwal, and the nearest railway station is Kotdwara, about 18 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 Palkot Range
Tehsil headquarters	Lansdowne	1.9 km
District headquarters	Garhwal	7.7 km
Nearest town	Kotdwāra	18 km
Nearest railway station	Kotdwara	18 km

Villages closest to Palkot Range

These are the nearest recorded villages by distance rather than by name, all of them in Lansdowne 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 Palkot Range

As per the Census of India 2011, Palkot Range village had a population of 12. That makes it the 437th largest of the 465 villages in the tehsil, among the smaller settlements locally for the tehsil, where the typical village holds 148 residents.

Palkot Range village has 8 males and 4 females as recorded in the 2011 census.

Working from the 2011 counts, Palkot Range has about 500 females for every 1000 males. In short, the shortfall of women against men is wide, well below the tehsil average of 1243.

The pincode recorded for Palkot Range is 246170. Large villages sometimes share a pincode with neighbouring settlements.

Palkot Range covers 42.5 hectares as recorded in the census. Against its 2011 population that is roughly 0.3 people per hectare, very thinly settled, with most of its land uninhabited.

Palkot Range falls under Lansdowne tehsil of Garhwal district in Uttarakhand.

The nearest railway station to Palkot Range is Kotdwara, about 18 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 5 - 10 km distance and private bus service as Available within village for Palkot Range.

Palkot Range is about 7.7 km from Garhwal in a straight line. Road distance is longer, usually by a quarter to a half again, depending on the route.

Palkot Range is in Lansdowne tehsil of Garhwal district. Lansdowne is about 1.9 km away. Garhwal is about 7.7 km away. Kotdwāra is about 18 km away. Straight-line distances are a guide to how far out the village sits, not a driving figure.