Bailhongal

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Bailhongal Bailahongala
Town
Bailhongal Location in Karnataka, India
Coordinates: 15°49′01″N 74°52′01″E / 15.817°N 74.867°E / 15.817; 74.867
Country	India
State	Karnataka
District	Belagavi
Government
• Body	Town Municipal Council
Area
• Town	15.30 km2 (5.91 sq mi)
• Rural	1,109.63 km2 (428.43 sq mi)
Elevation	664 m (2,178 ft)
Population  (2011)[1]
• Town	49,182
• Density	3,200/km2 (8,300/sq mi)
• Rural	332,007
Languages
• Official	Kannada
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	591 102
Telephone code	08288
Vehicle registration	KA-24
Website	https://bailhongalatown.mrc.gov.in/en

Bailhongal is a town, Taluk and one of the three Subdivisional headquarters^[2] in Belagavi district of Karnataka state in southern India. The taluk headquarters is about 44 km from the district headquarters.

There are important pilgrim places in the taluk. These include Bhartinand Swamiji Math Inchal, Sogal Someshwar Temple, Hafiz Bari Dargah, Markaz Masjid, and Jamia Masjid. There are also historical places like Kittur, where freedom fighters like Rani Chennamma and Sangolli Rayanna lived. Most of the agricultural land is controlled by the Malaprabha irrigation project. There are many educational institutes including talukas such as Saundatti, Gokak, Belagavi.

There is also a proposal to make Bailhongal a separate district, to ease the administration of the large Belagavi district, including Kittur, Savadatti, Bailhongal and Ramdurg taluks with headquarters at Bailhongal. But the decision is yet to be pending because of district headquarter between Bailhongal and Gokak crash

Bailhongal is already a subdivision of Bailhongal, Kittur, Savadatti, Ramdurg, Gokak and Mudalgi talukas