Patan block
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Patan | |
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Block | |
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| Country |  India |
| State | Jharkhand |
| District | Palamu |
| Block | Patan |
| Government | |
| • Zila Parishad Member | Jai shankar Kumar Singh -Sangram Singh |
| Elevation | 216 m (709 ft) |
| Population (2001) | |
• Total | 146,139 |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Magahi, Hindi |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 822123 |
| Website | palamu |
Patan is one of the administrative blocks/Tehsil/ Taluka of Palamu district, Jharkhand state, India. According to the census of 2001 the block has 25,186 households with a population of 146,139. The block has 186 villages.
Patan is a part of Chhatarpur (Jharkhand Assembly constituency).
Languages
[edit | edit source]Languages spoken here include Asuri, an Austroasiatic language spoken by approximately 17 000 in India, largely in the southern part of Palamu;[1] and Bhojpuri, a tongue in the Bihari language group with almost 40 000 000 speakers, written in both the Devanagari and Kaithi scripts.[2]