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By population, Bakia ranks #7 of 36 villages in Sameli mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Bakia is a village of 3,697 people in 693 households (Census 2011) in Sameli block, Katihar district, Bihar, the 7th-largest of 36 villages in Sameli block. Literacy is 42%, 2 points below the block average of 44% and the sex ratio is 943 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 854115, served by Semapur Factory post office; the LGD village code is 225635. The village votes in Parbatta assembly constituency, represented by MLA Babulal Shorya. The population is estimated at 4,359 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
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Sources: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (Census 2011 + Population Projections 2011-2036) · International Institute for Population Sciences (NFHS-5) · Election Commission of India · data.gov.in (Jal Jeevan Mission, PMAY-G, SBM-G dashboards). Projections may differ from on-the-ground reality by ±20% for individual villages. An asterisk next to a sex-ratio value (—*) flags a Census 2011 figure outside the plausible range of 300–2000 ♀/1000♂; the underlying source row is suppressed pending review.
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