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Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
Charangul is a village in Sunabeda mandal, Koraput district, Odisha, with a population of 5,841 across 1,495 households and a literacy rate of 55.2%. The village has a bus stop and is situated at 18.735°N, 82.888°E.
SP
Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
SMT PHULMATI PUJARI
Contact: 94****9968
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- LGD code
- 429976
- Pincode
- 763002
- Post office
- Sunabeda-2
- Population
- 5,841
- Households
- 1,495
- Literacy rate
- 55.2%
- Sex ratio
- 980 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 2,807
- Distance to district centre
- 15 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 6 km
- Distance to Bhubaneswar
- 353 km
- Distance to Hyderabad
- 489 km
- Nearest railway station
- Damanjodi · 4 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- New Apollo Medical Store · 5 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Charangul compares
By population, Charangul ranks #1 of 8 villages in Sunabeda mandal — the largest.
Literacy rate
%
55.2%
+1.1% vs mandal average
- Charangul
- 55.2%
- Sunabeda mandal
- 54.1%
- Koraput district
- 41.2%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
980
+56 vs mandal average
- Charangul
- 980
- Sunabeda mandal
- 924
Household size
people per home
3.9
−0.1 vs mandal average
- Charangul
- 3.9
- Sunabeda mandal
- 4.0
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Charangul at a glance
Charangul is a village of 5,841 people in 1,495 households (Census 2011) in Sunabeda block, Koraput district, Odisha, the largest of 8 villages in Sunabeda block. Literacy is 55%, 1 points above the block average, and the sex ratio is 980 women per 1,000 men. It lies 15 km from the Koraput district centre, 49 km from Ramabhadrapuram, the nearest town, 4 km from Damanjodi railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 763002, served by Sunabeda-2 post office; the LGD village code is 429976. The nearest hospital or health centre is New Apollo Medical Store, 5 km away. The sarpanch is SMT PHULMATI PUJARI, and the village votes in Pottangi assembly constituency, represented by Rama Chandra Kadam. The population is estimated at 6,887 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Key facts — Charangul
- LGD code
- 429976
- Pincode
- 763002
- Post office
- Sunabeda-2
- Population (Census 2011)
- 5,841
- Population (projected 2026)
- 6,887
- Households
- 1,495
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 980
- Literacy rate
- 55.2%
- Coordinates
- 18.73538°N, 82.88766°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Koraput
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Pottangi
- Member of Parliament
- Saptagiri Sankar Ulaka
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Rama Chandra Kadam
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- SMT PHULMATI PUJARI
- Block / Mandal
- Sunabeda
Getting there
How to reach Charangul
Distance to cities · straight line
- Bhubaneswar353 kmcapital
- Hyderabad489 km
- Chennai688 km
- Kolkata712 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationDamanjodi4 km
- Bus stopdamanjodi bus terminal3 km
- Hospital / PHCNew Apollo Medical Store5 km
- ATM / bankState Bank of India4 km
- Petrol pumpIndian Oil34 km
- CollegeRaja college ground52 km
- Police stationLandespolizei20 km
Nearest to the village
- Bus stop
- bus stop3.2 km
Places of worship · within 5 km
Temples & shrines near Charangul
6 Temples, 1 Church, 1 Mosque mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors. Residents can add the village jatara and temple festival under Events.
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Villages sharing pincode 763002
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Other villages named Charangul
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Villages near Charangul
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View all 7 →Sources & freshness
- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
- Village directory: Local Government Directory, record updated 2026-05-09
- Sarpanch: state panchayat-raj records
- Mandi prices: Agmarknet via data.gov.in, 2026-05-06
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
- Places nearby: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)