| Sulkapara | |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Pushpin Map: | India West Bengal#India |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in West Bengal, India |
| Coordinates: | 26.8645°N 88.9064°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  India |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | West Bengal |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Jalpaiguri |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Area Total Km2: | 4.192 |
| Population Total: | 5,682 |
| Population As Of: | 2011 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone1: | IST |
| Utc Offset1: | +5:30 |
| Postal Code Type: | PIN |
| Postal Code: | 735225 |
| Area Code Type: | Telephone/STD code |
| Area Code: | 03562 |
| Registration Plate: | WB |
| Blank1 Name Sec1: | Lok Sabha constituency |
| Blank1 Info Sec1: | Alipurduar |
| Blank2 Name Sec1: | Vidhan Sabha constituency |
| Blank2 Info Sec1: | Nagrakata |
Sulkapara is a village and a gram panchayat in the Nagrakata CD block in the Malbazar subdivision of the Jalpaiguri district in the state of West Bengal, India.
Sulkapara is located at 26.8645°N 88.9064°W.
Gorumara National Park has overtaken traditionally popular Jaldapara National Park in footfall and Malbazar has emerged as one of the most important towns in the Dooars. Malbazar subdivision is presented in the map alongside.[1] [2] It is a predominantly rural area with 88.62% of the population living in rural areas and 11.32% living in the urban areas.[3] [4] Tea gardens in the Dooars and Terai regions produce 226 million kg or over a quarter of India's total tea crop.[5] [6] Some tea gardens were identified in the 2011 census as census towns or villages.[7] Such places are marked in the map as CT (census town) or R (rural/ urban centre). Specific tea estate pages are marked TE.
Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the subdivision. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.
As per the 2011 Census of India, Sulkapara had a total population of 5,682. There were 2,986 (53%) males and 2,696 (47%) females. There were 710 persons in the age range of 0 to 6 years. The total number of literate people in Sulkapara was 3,429 (68.97% of the population over 6 years).[8]
Sulkapara Rural Hospital, with 30 beds at Sulkapara, is the major government medical facility in the Nagrakata CD block.[9]