Buxwaha is a Tehsil and a
nagar panchayat
A nagar panchayat () or 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 12,00 ...
in
Chhatarpur district in the state of
Madhya Pradesh
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,
India
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Buxwaha is located between Latitude 24°15'N latitude - 79°17'E Longitude. Buxwaha Nagar Parishad (BUNP) covers an area of 14.73 sq.km and has a population of 10236 in 2011 with average household size as 6 and density of 800 persons per sq.km
Demographics
India
census
A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...
, Buxwaha had a population of 9,064. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Buxwaha has an average literacy rate of 54%, lower than the national average of 59.5%; with male literacy of 63% and female literacy of 44%. 19% of the population is under 6 years of age.
There is a hilly forest area, spread over 384 hectare named
buxwaha forest located near sagoria village.
References
Bundelkhand
Chhatarpur
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