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Farakhpur

human settlement

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ1525557 ↗
Source-derived summary

Farakhpur is a census town in Yamunanagar district in the state of Haryana, India.

Demographics

As of 2001 India census, Farakhpur had a population of 8738. Males constitute 54% of the population and females 46%. Farakhpur has an average literacy rate of 74%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 79%, and female literacy is 67%. In Farakhpur, 13% of the population is under 6 years of age.

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The public source identifies “Farakhpur” as human settlement. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Farakhpur, human and settlement.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Farakhpur, human and settlement providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1525557. Authority coordinates are 30.137, 77.206. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2001.

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This entry incorporates text from “Farakhpur” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.