Pattabong Tea Garden
Pattabong Tea Garden (also spelled Puttabong) is a village in the Darjeeling Pulbazar CD block in the Darjeeling Sadar subdivision of the Darjeeling district in the state of West Bengal, India. Geography. Tea estate. Puttabong Tea Estate is one of the largest tea gardens in Darjeeling with an area under tea plantation of while the gross area is . Area overview. The map alongside shows the northern portion of the Darjeeling Himalayan hill region. Kangchenjunga, which rises with an elevation of is located further north of the area shown.Sandakphu, rising to a height of , on the Singalila  Ridge, is the highest point in West Bengal.In Darjeeling Sadar subdivision 61% of the total population lives in the rural areas and 39% of the population lives in the urban areas. There are 78 tea gardens/ estates (the figure varies slightly according to different sources), producing and largely exporting Darjeeling tea in the district. It engages a large proportion of the population directly/ indirectly. Some tea gardens were identified in the 2011 census as census towns or villages. Such places are marked in the map as CT (census town) or R (rural/ urban centre). Specific tea estate pages are  marked TE. Demographics. According to the 2011 Census of India, Pattabong Tea Garden had a total population of 2,347 of which 1,137 (48%) were males and 1,210 (52%) were females. There were 153 persons in the age range of 0 to 6 years. The total number of literate people in Pattagong Tea Garden was 2,012 (85.73% of the population over 6 years). Notable persons. Phiroj Shyangden. Songwriter, singer, guitarist, composer. Former founding member of 1974 AD and The Original Duo.