| Karnah | |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  India |
| Pushpin Map: | India Jammu and Kashmir#India |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Jammu and Kashmir, India |
| Coordinates: | 34.398°N 73.861°W |
| Subdivision Type1: | State / Union Territory |
| Subdivision Name1: | Jammu and Kashmir |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Kupwara |
| Demographics1 Title1: | Official |
| Demographics1 Info1: | Pahari,[1] [2] |
| Demographics1 Title2: | Spoken |
| Demographics1 Info2: | Pahari, Gojri |
| Timezone1: | IST |
| Utc Offset1: | +5:30 |
| Postal Code Type: | PIN |
| Postal Code: | 193225[3] |
Karnah is an administrative tehsil in the Kupwara district of the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. It is from the town of Kupwara, the district headquarter, and is the largest tehsil of the district by area.CULTURE AND LANGUAGES The karnah valley has a division in culture and Languages. Majority of population speaks Pahari and minorities of population speaks gojri and kashmiri .The karnah valley has population following pahari, kashmiri and gojri culture. Karnah is still an isolated land area in northern mountain of kashmir. Karnah has the breathtaking views .Dildar a village in middle of valley is known as the heart of karnah valley .Valley has a different variations of walnuts, apples.Surrounded by mountains, views of heaven the valley is beautiful and is named after the Late Karan singh .THE MASS IMMIGRATION OF SIKHS.The valley has majority population of muslims,and minority is Sikhism. But the tables were different in time of independence. Sikh community was slaughtered by horsemen called the pakhtoons .Afterwards an unseen immigration took place when thousands of sikhs left the valley leaving their culture, wealth and homes behind and only a few of them left behind saved by muslims in neighborhood.
On 22 March 2023,Indian Army inaugurated the Sharda Devi temple in Teetwal, Karnah in Kupwara district with the support of locals of valley, which is close to Line of Control.[4] [5] The architecture and reconstruction of the Maa Sharda Devi temple was done in accordance with the mythological scriptures under the aegis of Sharada Peeth, and the temple was inaugurated on the first day of Chaitra Navratri.[6]
Karnah tehsil has a total population of 60,129 as per the Census 2011, of which 34,471 are males while 25,658 are females, giving a sex rationratio of 744 females per 1,000 males. In 2011 there were total 11,422 families residing in Karnah Tehsil. Paharis form a majority population in the tehsil. As per Census 2011 out of the total population, 25.8% live in urban areas while 74.2% live in rural areas. The average literacy rate in urban areas is 68.4% while that in the rural http://Karnah is 59.9%. Also, the sex ratio of urban areas in the tehsil is 587 while that of rural areas is 807.[7]