An independent atlas · बिहार

Bihar, beyond
the obvious.

01—38

A name on a map. A courtyard you recognise.
A district with a story of its own.

Choose a place. See what it holds.

38 districts in Bihar

BU-26 / DISTRICT ARCHIVE

Patna

Bihar Museum · Ganges · Son

Population 2026 Estimate73.42 lakhUNFPA · published projection 1 Mar 2026

Census 2011: 58,38,465 people. How to read the estimate.

70.7%Literacy · 2011
43.1%Urban share · 2011
1,823People / km² · 2011
Tree shadows across a courtyard at Bihar Museum, Patna.
Bihar Museum · photograph, 2017Shivamsetu · CC BY-SA 4.0
FROM THE PRODUCT REGISTER / 2024

Bakery Products

The 2024 PMFME list links this product to Patna. The museum photograph belongs to a different part of the same district’s record.

MoFPI · One District One Product ↗
Open the district factbook

What’s in this editionRead the source register ↗

The subject archive / new in this edition

Follow
a thread.

From a running stitch to a public record: read Bihar’s craft, observances, tourism, education and changing economy through corrected, dated datasets.

Open the subject archive ↗
A few things to stay withThe place collection
01 / PATNA
Tree shadows across a courtyard at Bihar Museum, Patna.
2017 · PhotographShivamsetu · CC BY-SA 4.0Resized; soft edge treatment in the page. Original image and marks retained.

Bihar Museum

The museum is in Patna and was inaugurated in 2015.

02 / NALANDA
Red brick stairs, walls and passages in the excavated remains of Nalanda Mahavihara.
2016 · PhotographUphogaphy · CC BY-SA 4.0Resized; soft edge treatment in the page. Original image and marks retained.

Nalanda Mahavihara

The archaeological site was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2016.

The roads between places

A route with
something to stop for.

Follow four mapped road journeys through Bihar, with source-linked heritage stops, local route records and GPX tracks you can take with you.

Open the road atlas

Read Bihar’s current statistical notebook ↗

A question in the numbers

Where does
urban Bihar live?

Patna district contains 25,14,590 of Bihar’s 2011 urban residents. Put it beside the other 37 districts and the pattern becomes clearer.

Read the population field note

2011 count · same-year comparisons · downloadable evidence