Sumbal is a town and a
notified area committee
A nagar panchayat (town panchayat; ) or Notified Area Council (NAC) in India is a settlement in transition from rural to urban and therefore a form of an urban political unit comparable to a municipality. An urban centre with more than 12,000 ...
in the
Bandipora district
Bandipore district (also spelt as Bandipora or Bandipur) is one of the 20 districts in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Bandipore town is the administrative headquarters of the district. Bandipore, a township with peculiar scenic ...
of the Indian
union territory of
Jammu and Kashmir. Sumbal is 19 kilometres away from
Srinagar (the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir). Sumbal city is divided into 13 wards, for which elections are held every 5 years.
Geography
Sumbal is located at . It has an average elevation of 1557
metre
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s (5108
feet
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).
Demographics
At the 2001 India
census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses in ...
, Sumbal had a population of 10,737. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Sumbal has an average literacy rate of 29%, lower than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 39%, and female literacy is 18%. In Sumbal, 13% of the population is under 6 years of age.
See also
*
Manzoor Dar, a notable cricketer of Sumbal
*
Uri
References
Cities and towns in Baramulla district
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