Ashiyapat is a village in Ranavav Taluka of

Porbandar district Porbandar district is one of the 33 districts of Gujarat state in western India. The district covers an area of 2,316 km2. It had a population of 5.85,449 of which 48.77% were urban as of 2011 census This district was carved out of Junagadh ...

Gujarat Gujarat (, ) is a state along the western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the fifth-largest Indian state by area, covering some ; and the ninth ...

, India. It is about twenty miles north east of

Porbandar Porbandar is a city in the States and territories of India, Indian state of Gujarat, perhaps best known for being the birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi and Sudama. It is the administrative center of the Porbandar District and it was the former capi ...

. The village is situated close to

Bileshwar Bhilleshwar is a village in Ranavav Taluka of Porbandar district in Gujarat, India. Geography Bhilleshwar is located near to the village of Ashiyapat, and east of the Barda hill on the banks of the Bhilleshvari river. The river called Bhil Gan ...

on the northern bank of the Bileshvari river. Ashiyapat is about a mile and a half to the east of the Barda range of hills, the highest summit of which, Mount Venu, is 2057 feet above the level of the sea. The village was under

Porbandar State Porbandar State was a princely state during the British Raj ruled by Jethwa dynasty. It was one of the few princely states with a coastline. The capital of state was the harbour town of Porbandar. Some other important towns of this state wer ...

during British period.

Demographics

According to the

2011 Census of India The 2011 Census of India or the 15th Indian Census was conducted in two phases, house listing and population enumeration. The House listing phase began on 1 April 2010 and involved the collection of information about all buildings. Information ...

, the population of Ashiyapat totalled 428 in 2011, divided over 96 households living on 1,114

hectares The hectare (; SI symbol: ha) is a non-SI metric unit of area equal to a square with 100-metre sides (1 hm2), or 10,000 m2, and is primarily used in the measurement of land. There are 100 hectares in one square kilometre. An acre is ab ...

of land.

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: Cities and towns in Porbandar district {{Porbandar-geo-stub