Simulbari Tea Garden is a village in the
Kurseong
Kurseong (, ) is a town and a municipality in Darjeeling district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the headquarters of the Kurseong subdivision.
Located at an altitude of , Kurseong is from Darjeeling and has a pleasant climate throu ...
CD block in the
Kurseong subdivision of the
Darjeeling district in the state of
West Bengal
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,
India
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.
Geography
Location
Simulbari Tea Garden is located at .
Area overview
The map alongside shows the eastern portion of the
Darjeeling Himalayan hill region and a small portion of the terai region in its eastern and southern fringes, all of it in the Darjeeling district. In the
Darjeeling Sadar subdivision
Darjeeling Sadar subdivision is a subdivision of the Darjeeling district in the state of West Bengal, India.
Subdivisions
Darjeeling district is divided into the following administrative subdivisions:
Police stations
Police stations i ...
61.00% of the total population lives in the rural areas and 39.00% of the population lives in the urban areas. In the
Kurseong subdivision 58.41% of the total population lives in the rural areas and 41.59% lives in the urban areas.
There are 78 tea gardens/ estates (the figure varies slightly according to different sources), in the district, producing and largely exporting
Darjeeling tea
Darjeeling tea is a tea made from ''Camellia sinensis var. sinensis'' that is grown and processed in Darjeeling district or Kalimpong district in West Bengal, India. Since 2004, the term ''Darjeeling tea'' has been a registered geographical in ...
. It engages a large proportion of the population directly/ indirectly. Some tea gardens were identified in the 2011 census as
census town
In India and some other countries, a census town is designated as a town that satisfies certain characteristics.
India
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s or villages. Such places are marked in the map as CT (census town) or R (rural/ urban centre). Specific tea estate pages are marked TE.
Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the subdivision. All places marked on the map are linked in the larger full screen map.
Demographics
According to the
2011 Census of India, Simulbari Tea Garden had a total population of 4,160 of which 2,079 (50%) were males and 2,081 (50%) were females. There were 499 persons in the age range of 0 to 6 years. The total number of literate people in Simulbari Tea Garden was 2,039 (49.01% of the population over 6 years).
Economy
Simulbari Tea Garden, located in the terai region, was locked out in February 2019.
References
External links
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Villages in Darjeeling district
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