Barwa is a village in Katiya mandal, Gopalganj district, Bihar. The village has 427 residents in 63 households with a literacy rate of 55.5%. It is situated at coordinates 27.108°N, 84.464°E and serves postal code 841437.
By population, Barwa ranks #84 of 116 villages in Katiya mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Barwa is a village of 427 people in 63 households (Census 2011) in Katiya block, Gopalganj district, Bihar, the 84th-largest of 116 villages in Katiya block. Literacy is 56%, about the same as the block average of 56% and the sex ratio is 1,014 women per 1,000 men. It lies 131 km from the Gopalganj district centre, 0 km from Pakri, the nearest town, under 1 km from Narkatyaganj railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 841437, served by Kateya post office; the LGD village code is 229835. The nearest hospital or health centre is Sub-Divisional Hospital, Narkatiyaganj, <1 km away. The village votes in Bibhutipur assembly constituency, represented by MLA Ajay Kumar. The population is estimated at 503 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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