About Silakhet Village

Silakhet is a small village in Berinag tehsil, in the district of Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 21, made up of 7 males and 14 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 2,000 females per 1000 males. The village covers 20.61 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 262534, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

Silakhet Overview

Census 2011 figures for Silakhet village
Description	Value
State	Uttarakhand
District	Pithoragarh
Tehsil	Berinag
Pincode	262534
Area (hectares)	20.61 hectares
Population	21
Male Population	7
Female Population	14
Sex Ratio (females per 1000 males)	2,000
Bus Service (public)	Available within 5 - 10 km distance
Bus Service (private)	Available within 5 - 10 km distance
Nearest Railway Station	Available within 10+ km distance

How Silakhet compares

By the 2011 count Silakhet is the 246th largest of the 280 villages in the tehsil, which puts it among the smaller settlements locally, where the typical village holds 183 residents. Its 20.61 hectares work out to about 1.0 people per hectare, very thinly settled, with most of its land uninhabited. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, well above the tehsil average of 1140.

Getting to Silakhet

Silakhet is a little way from the nearest bus route, and further still from the railway. The census records public bus service for Silakhet as Available within 5 - 10 km distance. Private bus service is recorded as Available within 5 - 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 Silakhet from other places

Silakhet lies about 33 km from Pithoragarh, and the nearest railway station is Kathgodam, about 66 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 Silakhet
Tehsil headquarters	Berinag	14 km
Nearest town	Almora	32 km
District headquarters	Pithoragarh	33 km
Nearest railway station	Kathgodam	66 km

Villages closest to Silakhet

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

As per the Census of India 2011, Silakhet village had a population of 21. That makes it the 246th largest of the 280 villages in the tehsil, among the smaller settlements locally for the tehsil, where the typical village holds 183 residents.

Silakhet village has 7 males and 14 females as recorded in the 2011 census.

Working from the 2011 counts, Silakhet has about 2000 females for every 1000 males. In short, women outnumber men here, well above the tehsil average of 1140.

The pincode recorded for Silakhet is 262534. Large villages sometimes share a pincode with neighbouring settlements.

Silakhet covers 20.61 hectares as recorded in the census. Against its 2011 population that is roughly 1.0 people per hectare, very thinly settled, with most of its land uninhabited.

Silakhet falls under Berinag tehsil of Pithoragarh district in Uttarakhand.

The nearest railway station to Silakhet is Kathgodam, about 66 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 5 - 10 km distance for Silakhet.

Silakhet is about 33 km from Pithoragarh in a straight line. Road distance is longer, usually by a quarter to a half again, depending on the route.

Silakhet is in Berinag tehsil of Pithoragarh district. Berinag is about 14 km away. Almora is about 32 km away. Pithoragarh is about 33 km away. Straight-line distances are a guide to how far out the village sits, not a driving figure.