Maura, or Moura Jharkaha, is a village in Shankarpur Block,

Madhepura District Madhepura district is one of the thirty-eight districts of Bihar state, India, and Madhepura town is the administrative headquarters of this district. Madhepura district is a part of Kosi division. History Madhepura is part of the Mithila regio ...

Bihar Bihar (; ) is a state in eastern India. It is the 2nd largest state by population in 2019, 12th largest by area of , and 14th largest by GDP in 2021. Bihar borders Uttar Pradesh to its west, Nepal to the north, the northern part of West Be ...

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. It is located in the north of the district, approximately 19 kilometres northeast of the district capital

Madhepura Madhepura is a municipality in Madhepura district in the Indian state of Bihar. It stands at the centre of Kosi ravine, It was called ''Madhyapura-'' a place centrally situated which was subsequently transformed as Madhipura into present Madhep ...

, and 5 kilometres north of the block capital

Shankarpur Shankarpur is a beach village located 14 km east of Digha in West Bengal, India. It is also a regular fishing harbour. Shankarpur contains a number of temples. Geography Location Shankarpur is located in the Purba (East) Medinipur Dist ...

. As of 2011, it has a population of 42,528.

Geography

Maura is located on the south of Latona Noyrth, west of Garha Rampur, north of Behrari, and east of Rampur Lahi. Its area is 4732 hectares.

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 ...

, Maura contains 8,790 households. Among the 42,528 residents, 22,202 are male and 20,326 are female. The literacy rate is 41.68%, with 11,087 of the male population and 6,638 of the female population being literate. The census location code of the village is 225905.

References

{{Reflist Villages in Madhepura district