Khatkar Kalan

Khatkar Kalan
town
Khatkar Kalan
Location in Punjab, India
Khatkar Kalan
Khatkar Kalan (India)
Coordinates: 31°07′00″N 76°08′00″E / 31.1167°N 76.1333°E / 31.1167; 76.1333
Country India
StatePunjab
DistrictShaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar
Languages
 • OfficialPunjabi
Time zoneUTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN
144512
Vehicle registrationPB-32

Khatkar Kalan is a village just outside Banga town in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district (recently named Nawanshahr earlier the part of Jalandhar district) in the Indian state of Punjab. This place is famous for the memorial of Bhagat Singh, an Indian freedom fighter, who was born in Banga,and after whom the district is also named. Khurd and Kalan mean small and large respectively, when two villages have the same name they are at times distinguished by using Kalan or Khurd with the village name, to indicate their size relative to each other.

Neighboring villages that share a boundary with Katkar Kalan are Thandian, Dosanjh Khurd, Manguwal, Karnana, Naura, Kahma, Bhootan, Bhukhari and the Town of Banga.