Pakuria is a community development block that forms an administrative division in the Pakur subdivision of the Pakur district, Jharkhand state, India. Geography Pakuria, the eponymous CD block headquarters, is located at . It is located 52 km from Pakur, the district headquarters. A predominantly hilly area, Pakur district has pockets of plain land. A long but narrow stretch between the Farakka Feeder Canal, located outside the district, and the Sahibganj loop line is very fertile. The Littipara and Amrapara CD blocks are largely covered by the Rajmahal hills. The rest of the district is rolling uplands. The district, once famous for its forests, have lost all of it, except a few hill tops in the Damin-i-koh area. Pakuria CD block is bounded by Maheshpur block on the north, Nalhati I CD block in Birbhum district of West Bengal on the east, Shikaripara CD block in Dumka district on the south, and Kathikund and Gopikandar CD blocks in Dumka district on the west. Pakuria CD block has an area of 279.23 km2.Pakuria police station serves this block. Headquarters of this CD block is at Pakuria village. Demographics Population According to the 2011 Census of India, Pakuria CD block had a total population of 108,576, all of which were rural . There were 54,181 (50%) males and 54,395 (50%) females. Population in the age range 0–6 years was 19,484. Scheduled Castes numbered 3,268 (3.01%) and Scheduled Tribes numbered 69,680 (64.18%). In the 2011 census Pakuria (village) had a population of 3,234. Literacy census, the total number of literate persons in the Pakuria CD block was 47,945 (53.82% of the population over 6 years) out of which 28,865 (60%) were males and 19,080 (40%) were females. The gender disparity (the difference between female and male literacy rates) was 20%. See also – List of Jharkhand districts ranked by literacy rate Language and religion According to the District Census Handbook, Pakur, 2011 census, as of 2011, Santali was the mother-tongue of 286,300 persons forming 31.80% of the population of Pakur district, followed by Bengali 252,070 persons (27.99%) and Hindi 101,440 persons (11.27%). Speakers of other scheduled languages were almost non-existent. Hindi is the official language in Jharkhand and Urdu has been declared as an additional official language. In 2001 census, Hindus constituted 47.15%, Muslims 15.16%, Christians 6.5% and others 30.84% of the population in Pakuria CD block. In the district as a whole,