Sona pur is a village in the

Alipurduar I Alipurduar I is a community development block (CD block) that forms an administrative division in the Alipurduar subdivision of the Alipurduar district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Alipurduar Railway Junction is located at . The ...

CD block in the

Alipurduar subdivision Alipurduar subdivision is an Administrative divisions of India, administrative division of the Alipurduar district in the Indian States and territories of India, state of West Bengal. Geography Subdivisions Alipurduar district is divided into the ...

of the

Alipurduar district Alipurduar district (), is one of the 23 districts of the state of West Bengal in India. The district is the part of Jalpaiguri Division. Alipurduar city is the headquarters of the district. It was made a district by bifurcating Jalpaiguri di ...

in the state of

West Bengal West Bengal (; Bengali language, Bengali: , , abbr. WB) is a States and union territories of India, state in the East India, eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabi ...

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Geography

Location

Sonapur is located at .

Area overview

Alipurduar district is covered by two maps. It is an extensive area in the eastern end of the

Dooars The Dooars or Duars () are the alluvial floodplains in eastern-northeastern India and southern Bhutan that lie south of the outer foothills of the Himalayas and north of the Brahmaputra River basin. This region is about wide and stretches ov ...

in West Bengal. It is undulating country, largely forested, with numerous rivers flowing down from the outer ranges of the

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in Bhutan. It is a predominantly rural area with 79.38% of the population living in the rural areas. The district has 1 municipal town and 20 census towns and that means that 20.62% of the population lives in urban areas. The scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, taken together, form more than half the population in all the six community development blocks in the district. There is a high concentration of tribal people (scheduled tribes) in the three northern blocks of the district. Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the subdivision. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.

Demographics

As per the 2011 Census of India, Uttar Sonapur had a total population of 5,632. There were 2,938 (52%) males and 2,694 (48%) females. There were 646 persons in the age range of 0 to 6 years. The total number of literate people in Uttar Sonapur was 3,822 (76.65% of the population over 6 years).

Education

Pijushkanti Mukherjee Mahavidyalaya was established at Sonapur in 2015. Affiliated with the

University of North Bengal The University of North Bengal (also North Bengal University, abbreviated as NBU) is a public state university in the North Bengal region of West Bengal, India. Its main campus is located in Raja Rammohanpur, Siliguri, Darjeeling district, in ...

, it offers courses in arts.

Healthcare

Pachkalguri Rural Hospital, with 30 beds, at

Pachkalguri Pachkalguri is a village in the Alipurduar I CD block in the Alipurduar subdivision of the Alipurduar district in the state of West Bengal, India. Geography Location Pachkalguri is located at . Area overview Alipurduar district is covere ...

, is the major government medical facility in the Alipurduar I CD block.

References

Villages in Alipurduar district {{Alipurduar-geo-stub