West Bengal · Current LGD directory
West Bengal LGD Village Codes
The 2 September 2026 LGD snapshot contains 41,005 village records for West Bengal, organised across 23 districts and 346 sub-districts, with 345 development blocks.
Among these village records, 40,976 include a usable Census 2011 reference and 6 include a local-language name. The State/UT data also contains 3,835 local-body records across the available rural, urban or traditional structures.
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Source detail
Village status in West Bengal
Status values are retained as they appear in the LGD source.
- Inhabitant39,130
- Un-Inhabitant1,868
- Forest7
Local government
Local-body structure
The official terminology below comes from the LGD records for West Bengal.
- Zilla Panchayat 22
- Panchayat Samiti 345
- Gram Panchayat 3,339
Administrative hierarchy
Districts in West Bengal
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Census 2011 village directory
Historical Census village information is kept on a separate State/UT directory because Census identifiers and current LGD codes belong to different systems.