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Mal Bazar is the Locality page for the town of Mal (Mal Bazar), enumerated in 2011 as the statutory town Mal (M) (town code 801639). It carries two accessions. Satkaya (Sathkaya Tea Garden), east of the town, is a separate census village; one of the two accessions is named for it.
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Coordinates and elevation
- No OpenStreetMap place node for the town was found. The infobox point, 26.8659, 88.7374, is the Mal Bazaar railway station node (11829312181); SRTM gives 150 m there.
- The accessions are stored at 26.882066, 88.749364 (172 m) and 26.879797, 88.780526 (154 m). The field report gives "approximately 167m" for the town and "approximately 190m" for Satkaya.
Census
- Mal (M) (801639): 25,218 people in 5,933 households, area 7.50 km² (District Census Handbook, Jalpaiguri, Part XII-B, town table).
- Sathkaya Tea Garden (village code 307005) is in Matiali block, not Mal: 4,528 people (2011 C.D. block-wise Primary Census Abstract).
Title and spelling
- The accessions store
locality = Mal Bazar; the field report writes Mal Bazaar, the census Mal, the 1911 gazetteer Mal (its OCR reads "Mai"). The page keeps the stored value as its title.
Source notes
- "Mal Bazar 'Sathkaya' Feral Selection 2025" is stored about 3 km east of the town and carries Mal Bazar as its locality. The field report's Satkaya collection is "Satkaya Feral Accession #1", from a mixed stand in a house compound that the grower said he had partly planted. The accession's locality value is reported, not changed.
- The gazetteer's distance from Mal to the Bataigol market is lost in the scan's text layer (p. 153); the article gives none.