By population, Kowad ranks #5 of 155 villages in Chandgad mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Kowad is a village of 3,837 people in 858 households (Census 2011) in Chandgad taluka, Kolhapur district, Maharashtra, the 5th-largest of 155 villages in Chandgad taluka. Literacy is 69%, 4 points above the taluka average of 65% and the sex ratio is 995 women per 1,000 men. It lies 121 km from the Kolhapur district centre, 14 km from Naganur, the nearest town, 21 km from Belagavi railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 416508, served by Kowad post office; the LGD village code is 568142. The nearest hospital or health centre is Phc Handignur, 8 km away. The village votes in Chandgad assembly constituency, represented by MLA Shivaji Shattupa Patil. The population is estimated at 4,524 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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