Lalkuan
town in Nainital district, Kumaon division, Uttarakhand, India
Lalkuan is a Nagar Panchayat in the Nainital district of the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It is also part of the Lalkuan Assembly constituency of Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly.
Demographics
In the 2011 India census, 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 on Nainital Road, 24 km from Rudrapur, 6 km from Pantnagar Airport, and 16 km from Haldwani.
Transport
Howrah–Lalkuan Express, Lalkuan–Anand Vihar Terminal Intercity Express and Lalkuan–Amritsar Superfast Express start from the Lalkuan Junction railway station.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Lalkuan” as town in Nainital district, Kumaon division, Uttarakhand, India. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as town in Nainital district, Kumaon division, Uttarakhand, India. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2237402. Authority coordinates are 29.080, 79.520. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2011.
Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
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This entry incorporates text from “Lalkuan” 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.