Kunjathur is a

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Kasaragod district Kasaragod ( and Malayalam language, Malayalam: , English language, English: ''Kassergode'', Tulu language, Tulu: ''Kasrod'', Arabic language, Arabic: ''Harkwillia'') is one of the 14 List of districts of Kerala, districts in the southern Indi ...

in the state of

Kerala Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South ...

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. It is south of

Mangalore Mangalore (), officially known as Mangaluru, is a major port city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It is located between the Arabian Sea and the Western Ghats about west of Bangalore, the state capital, 20 km north of Karnataka–Ker ...

Demographics

As of 2011 Census, Kunjathur had a population of 13,633 where 6,729 are males and 6,904 are females. Kunjathur

has an area of with 2,634 families residing in it. In Kunjathur, 12.3% of the population was under 6 years of age. Kunjathur had an average literacy of 90.2% lower than state average of 94%: male literacy was 94.9% and female literacy was 85.7%.

Religions

As of 2011 census, Kunjathur town had 13,633 population, which comprises 6,824 Muslims (50.1%), 5,924 Hindus (43.5%), 852 Christians (6.2%) and Others (0.2%).

Transportation

Local roads have access to National Highway No.66 which connects to

in the north and

Calicut Kozhikode (), also known in English as Calicut, is a city along the Malabar Coast in the state of Kerala in India. It has a corporation limit population of 609,224 and a metropolitan population of more than 2 million, making it the second la ...

in the south. The nearest railway station is

Manjeshwar Manjeshwar is a town and a minor port in Kasaragod district at the northern tip of Kerala. It is situated at a distance of from the state capital Thiruvananthapuram, north of district HQ Kasaragod and south of Mangalore city in neighbou ...

on Shoranur-Mangalore section under southern railway zone. The nearest airport is at

Languages

This locality is an essentially multi-lingual region. The people speak

Malayalam Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of 22 scheduled languages of India. Malayalam was des ...

Tulu Tulu may refer to: People *Derartu Tulu (born 1972), Ethiopian long-distance runner *Walid Yacoubou (born 1997), Togolese footballer nicknamed "Tulu" India *Tulu calendar, traditional solar calendar generally used in the regions of southwest Kar ...

Beary bashe Beary or Byari (ಬ್ಯಾರಿ ಬಾಸೆ ''Byāri Bāse'') is a Dravidian languages, Dravidian language spoken by the Muslim communities mainly of Karnataka (Dakshina Kannada and Udupi District, Udupi districts) and extreme northern end ...

Kannada Kannada (; ಕನ್ನಡ, ), originally romanised Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 47 million native s ...

and Konkani. Migrant workers also speak

Hindi Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ...

and

Tamil Tamil may refer to: * Tamils, an ethnic group native to India and some other parts of Asia **Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil people native to Sri Lanka also called ilankai tamils **Tamil Malaysians, Tamil people native to Malaysia * Tamil language, nativ ...

languages.

Administration

This village is part of Manjeswaram assembly constituency which is again part of

Kasaragod (Lok Sabha constituency) Kasaragod (Casrod) Lok Sabha constituency ( ml, കാസർഗോഡ് ലോക്സഭാ മണ്ഡലം ) is one of the 20 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Kerala state in southern India. Assembly segments Kasaragod Lok Sab ...

References

Manjeshwar area Cities and towns in Kasaragod district {{Kasaragod-geo-stub