Dhangawan is a village in Fatehpur mandal, Gaya district, Bihar, with a population of 1,313 across 182 households. The village has a literacy rate of 57.6% and is located at coordinates 25.213°N, 85.015°E with PIN code 824232.
By population, Dhangawan ranks #56 of 174 villages in Fatehpur mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Dhangawan is a village of 1,313 people in 182 households (Census 2011) in Fatehpur block, Gaya district, Bihar, the 56th-largest of 174 villages in Fatehpur block. Literacy is 58%, 11 points above the block average of 47% and the sex ratio is 917 women per 1,000 men. It lies 103 km from the Gaya district centre, 5 km from Kako, the nearest town, 3 km from Jehanabad railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 824232, served by Fatehpur (Gaya) post office; the LGD village code is 256912. The nearest hospital or health centre is Hussain Nursing Home, 3 km away. The village votes in Bibhutipur assembly constituency, represented by MLA Ajay Kumar. The population is estimated at 1,548 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
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Sources: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (Census 2011 + Population Projections 2011-2036) · International Institute for Population Sciences (NFHS-5) · Election Commission of India · data.gov.in (Jal Jeevan Mission, PMAY-G, SBM-G dashboards). Projections may differ from on-the-ground reality by ±20% for individual villages. An asterisk next to a sex-ratio value (—*) flags a Census 2011 figure outside the plausible range of 300–2000 ♀/1000♂; the underlying source row is suppressed pending review.
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