Pakur (also spelled Pakaur) is a community development block that forms an administrative division in the Pakur subdivision of the Pakur district, Jharkhand state, India. Geography Pakur, the eponymous CD block headquarters, is located at . 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. Pakur CD block is bounded by Barharwa CD block in Sahibganj district and Farakka CD block in Murshidabad district of West Bengal on the north, Samsherganj, Suti II and Suti I CD blocks in Murshidabad district of West Bengal on the east, Murarai I CD block in Birbhum district of West Bengal and Maheshpur CD block on the south, and Hiranpur CD block on the west. Pakur CD block has an area of 222.04 km2. Pakur Town, Pakur Muffasil and Pakur Mahila police stations serve this block. Headquarters of this CD block is at Pakur town. Demographics Population According to the 2011 Census of India, Pakur CD block had a total population of 282,075, of which 260,403 were rural and 21,672 were urban. There were 141,564 (50%) males and 140,511 (50%) females. Population in the age range 0–6 years was 62,846. Scheduled Castes numbered 7,733 (2.74%) and Scheduled Tribes numbered 41,180 (14.60%). Pakur CD Block is only one in the district which has recorded some degree of urbanization. Pakur town is the only one in the district to have a nagar palika. There are three census towns in Pakaur CD Block (2011 population in brackets): Kumarpur (7,153), Sagarmpur (6,184) and Raghunandanpur (8,335). Literacy census, the total number of literates in Pakaur CD Block was 91,080 (41.55% of the population over 6 years) out of which 51,274 (56%) were males and 39,806 (44%) were females. The gender disparity (the difference between female and male literacy rates) was 12%. See also – List of Jharkhand districts ranked by literacy rate Language and religion Hindi is the official language in Jharkhand and Urdu has been declared as an additional official language. census, Muslims constituted 67.04% of the population in Pakur CD block,