Sonawan is a village in Kudra mandal, Kaimur (Bhabua) district, Bihar. It has a population of 1,232 across 170 households with a literacy rate of 48.6%. The village is located at 25.134°N, 85.260°E and uses PIN code 821108.
By population, Sonawan ranks #40 of 159 villages in Kudra mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Sonawan is a village of 1,232 people in 170 households (Census 2011) in Kudra block, Kaimur (Bhabua) district, Bihar, the 40th-largest of 159 villages in Kudra block. Literacy is 49%, 11 points below the block average, and the sex ratio is 928 women per 1,000 men. It lies 35 km from the Kaimur (Bhabua) district centre, 19 km from Baragaon, the nearest town, 4 km from Islampur railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 821108, served by Kudra post office; the LGD village code is 249212. The nearest hospital or health centre is Surya Nursing Home, Nalanda, 10 km away. The village votes in Phulwari assembly constituency, represented by MLA Shyam Rajak. The population is estimated at 1,453 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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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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