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Lalkuan is 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 the Nainital district of the
Indian state India is a federal union comprising 28 states and 8 union territories, for a total of 36 subnational entities. The states and union territories are further subdivided into 800 districts and smaller administrative divisions by the respe ...
of
Uttarakhand Uttarakhand (, ), also known as Uttaranchal ( ; List of renamed places in India, the official name until 2007), is a States and union territories of India, state in North India, northern India. The state is bordered by Himachal Pradesh to the n ...
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Demographics

In the 2011 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 ...
, Lalkuan had a population of 7,644. Males constituted 55% of the population and females 45%. Lalkuan had an average literacy rate of 75%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy was 76% and female literacy was 74%. In Lalkuan, 12% of the population was under 6 years of age. Hindi, Kumauni and Punjabi are the main languages spoken there.


Geography

It is situated 80 km from
Bareilly Bareilly () is a city in Bareilly district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is among the largest metropolises in Western Uttar Pradesh and is the centre of the Bareilly division as well as the historical region of Rohilkhand. The city ...
on Nainital Road, 24 km from Rudrapur, 6 km from Pantnagar Airport, and 16 km from
Haldwani Haldwani (Kumaoni language, Kumaoni: ''Haldvānī'') is the largest city of Kumaon division, Kumaon. It is also the second List of cities in Uttarakhand by population, most populous city in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Haldwani is said to be ...
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References

Cities and towns in Nainital district {{Uttarakhand-geo-stub