By population, Poyen ranks #22 of 22 villages in Kargil mandal — the smallest.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Poyen is a village of 216 people in 29 households (Census 2011) in Kargil tehsil, Kargil district, Ladakh, the 22nd-largest of 22 villages in Kargil tehsil. Literacy is 55%, 3 points below the tehsil average of 58% and the sex ratio is 1,019 women per 1,000 men. It lies 37 km from the Kargil district centre (straight-line distances). The pincode is 194101, served by Leh City post office; the LGD village code is 972. Mapped within or next to the village: primary school, bank, weekly market. The population is estimated at 255 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Shelikchey →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poyen · this village | 216 | 55% | — |
| Shilikchey · Kargil | 1,006 | 66% | 2.6 km N |
| Akchamal · Kargil | 1,909 | 63% | 3 km E |
| Barchey · Kargil | 555 | 51% | 4.5 km SE |
| Yourbaltak · Kargil | 2,177 | 57% | 6.4 km E |
| Tumail · Kargil | 1,084 | 60% | 6.6 km E |
| Minjee · Kargil | 2,331 | 61% | 8.7 km SW |
Water supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
1 Mosque, 2 Temples, 1 Gurudwara mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors. Residents can add the village jatara and temple festival under Events.
4 mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors, nearest first. Government school lists (UDISE) will replace this when loaded.
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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