Bihar Museum
The museum is in Patna and was inaugurated in 2015.
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
27° N THE DISTRICT ATLAS 88° E
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
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 ↗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
Nalanda Mahavihara
The archaeological site was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2016.
Sher Shah Suri's tomb
The tomb is at Sasaram in Rohtas district.
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 atlasA 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 note2011 count · same-year comparisons · downloadable evidence