Sujanpur is a city and a municipal council

Municipal council

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 in Gurdaspur district

Gurdaspur District

Gurdaspur district is a district in the state of Punjab, situated in the northwest part of the Republic of India. Gurdaspur is the district headquarters. It internationally borders Narowal District of the Pakistani Punjab, Kathua District of Jammu and Kashmir, the Punjab districts of Amritsar and...

 in the India

India

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n state

States and territories of India

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 of Punjab

Punjab (India)

Punjab ) is a state in the northwest of the Republic of India, forming part of the larger Punjab region. The state is bordered by the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh to the east, Haryana to the south and southeast and Rajasthan to the southwest as well as the Pakistani province of Punjab to the...

. It is 6Km from Pathankot towards Jammu on Jallandhar - Jammu National Highway (NH-1A).

Demographics

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Census

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, Sujanpur had a population of 21,743. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Sujanpur has an average literacy rate of 71%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 75%, and female literacy is 66%. In Sujanpur, 12% of the population is under 6 years of age