Katangi

Katangi
Katangi
City
	Katangi railway station
	Katangi Location in Madhya Pradesh, India Katangi Katangi (India)
	Coordinates: 21°46′24″N 79°48′14″E / 21.77333°N 79.80389°E
Country	India
State	Madhya Pradesh
District	Balaghat
Government
• Type	Municipal Council
• Body	Municipal Council Katangi
Elevation	442 m (1,450 ft)
Population (2011)
• Total	16,146
Languages
• Official	Hindi
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	481445
ISO 3166 code	IN-MP
Vehicle registration	MP-50

Katangi is a city and a municipal council, near the city of Balaghat in Balaghat District in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

Geography

Katangi has an average elevation of 442 metres (1,450 feet).

Transport

Katangi has connectivity by road to cities like Nagpur, Seoni, Tumsar, Bhandara and the district headquarters of Balaghat.

Katangi also has railway connectivity. Katangi railway station is connected to Gondia via Balaghat by a broad-gauge network, Tirodi Railway Station is connected to Itwari (Nagpur) via Tumsar Road and Bhandara Road.

Demographics

At the 2001 Indian census,^[1] Katangi had a population of 14,760. Males constituted 50% of the population and females 50%. Katangi has an average literacy rate of 71%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 78%, and female literacy is 64%. In Katangi, 13% of the population is under 6 years of age.

References

^ "Census of India 2001: Data from the 2001 Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional)". Census Commission of India. Archived from the original on 16 June 2004. Retrieved 1 November 2008.

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[1] "Census of India 2001: Data from the 2001 Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional)". Census Commission of India. Archived from the original on 16 June 2004. Retrieved 1 November 2008.

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