Kolanda is a village in the Sabang CD block in the Kharagpur subdivision of the Paschim Medinipur district in the state of West Bengal, India.
Kolanda is located at .
Kharagpur subdivision, shown partly in the map alongside, mostly has alluvial soils, except in two CD blocks in the west â Kharagpur I and Keshiary, which mostly have lateritic soils. Around 74% of the total cultivated area is cropped more than once. With a density of population of 787 per km<sup>2</sup>nearly half of the district's population resides in this subdivision. 14.33% of the population lives in urban areas and 86.67% lives in the rural areas.
<small>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.</small>
According to the 2011 Census of India, Kolanda had a total population of 1,520, of which 763 (50%) were males and 757 (50%) were females. There were 200 persons in the age range of 0âÂÂ6 years. The total number of literate persons in Kolanda was 1,320 (86.14% of the population over 6 years).
.*For language details see Sabang (community development block)#Language and religion