THE GEOGRAPHY FILE / PART 02
Bihar, by
the numbers.
A useful number has a place in your memory. Follow the administrative ladder, compare district extremes, then see what you can recall without looking.
Census figures below are a 2011 snapshot. Administrative counts in the supplied handout are shown as study notes and may change over time.
FIRST, FIND THE LADDER
One state.
Several layers.
Read from the larger unit to the smaller one. Tap any step to uncover the count, then say the sequence aloud.
Kosi · Darbhanga · Saran · Bhagalpur · Patna · Tirhut · Munger · Magadh · Purnia
Place them on the map ↗853 police stations in the supplied notes. A police station is not a rung in the civil administrative ladder.
GOVERNMENT & IDENTITY
Keep these
numbers together.
Two houses of Parliament, two houses in Bihar’s legislature, and a few identity facts.
THE 2011 CENSUS LENS
Read the state
at a glance.
All demographic figures in this section refer to Census 2011 or the 2001–2011 decade. They are historical, not present-day estimates.
Recall the order: overall → male → female.
THE DISTRICT EXTREMES
Highest. Lowest.
Make the pair.
Choose a theme. Guess both districts before revealing the answer; compare values only after the names stick.
District figures are from the supplied Census 2011 notes. The Gaya Scheduled Caste count has been corrected to 13,34,351 using the Census district handbook.
The supplied notes list Patna highest for per-capita income, but give Sheohar and Madhepura as conflicting lowest districts. Use a named Economic Survey year before memorising this pair.
ACTIVE RECALL / TWO MINUTES
Close the notes.
Find the answer.
Ten questions mix the administrative ladder, representation, state figures, and district records. Your score stays on this device for this visit only.
KEEP BUILDING THE MAP
Numbers make more sense
when you can place them.
Return to the district map to connect these facts to actual locations.