By population, Arithang ranks #7 of 26 villages in Yuksom mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Arithang is a village of 928 people in 186 households (Census 2011) in Yuksom block, Gyalshing district, Sikkim, the 7th-largest of 26 villages in Yuksom block. Literacy is 69%, 2 points above the block average of 67% and the sex ratio is 1,062 women per 1,000 men. It lies 40 km from the Gyalshing district centre, 58 km from Bhagatpur Tea Garden, the nearest town, 47 km from Darjeeling railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 737111, served by Gayzing post office; the LGD village code is 261005. Mapped within or next to the village: primary school, primary health centre, bank, post office. The population is estimated at 1,094 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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