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{{Short description|Village in Jammu and Kashmir, India}}
{{Use Indian English|date=January 2023}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2023}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Haigam
| official_name =
| native_name =
| native_name_lang =
| settlement_type = Village
| image_skyline =
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| pushpin_map = India Jammu and Kashmir#India
| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Jammu and Kashmir
| coordinates = {{coord|34.2420|74.4988|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = {{flag|India}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[States and union territories of India|Union Territory]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of Jammu and Kashmir|District]]
| subdivision_type3 = [[List of subdistricts in India|Tehsil]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Jammu and Kashmir (union territory)|Jammu and Kashmir]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Baramulla district|Baramulla]]
| subdivision_name3 = [[Sopore]]
| area_total_km2 =
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| population_total = 6212
| demographics1_footnotes =
| demographics_type1 = Languages
| demographics1_title1 = Official
| demographics1_info1 = [[Kashmiri language|Kashmiri]], [[Urdu]], [[Hindi]], [[English language|English]]<ref>{{cite news | title=Parliament passes JK Official Languages Bill, 2020 | work=Rising Kashmir | date=23 September 2020 | url=http://risingkashmir.com/news/parliament-passes-jk-official-languages-bill-2020 | access-date=26 July 2022 | archive-date=24 September 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924141909/http://risingkashmir.com/news/parliament-passes-jk-official-languages-bill-2020 | url-status=dead }}</ref>
| demographics1_title2 = Spoken
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| postal_code_type = [[Postal Index Number|PIN]]
| postal_code = 193202<ref>{{cite web |title=HAIGAM Pin Code |url=https://news.abplive.com/pincode/jammu-and-kashmir/baramulla/haigam-pincode-193202.html |website=news.abplive.com |access-date=26 July 2022}}</ref>
| postal2_code =
| area_code_type = Telephone Code
| area_code = 01954
| registration_plate = JK-05
| blank_name_sec1 = Literacy
| blank_info_sec1 = 56.81%
| blank_name_sec2 = Village Code
| blank_info_sec2 = 002219
| timezone1 = [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
| utc_offset1 = +05:30
| website = {{URL|barammulla.nic.in}}
| area_total_ha = 560.9
| elevation_m = 1584
}}
'''Haigam''' is a census village in [[Baramulla district]], [[Jammu and Kashmir (union territory)|Jammu & Kashmir]], [[India]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=India |title=Delimitation of parliamentary and assembly constituencies order, 1976. |last2=Election Commission |publisher=Election Commission, India |year=1976 |location=New Delhi |pages=627 |language=English}}</ref> As per the [[2011 Census of India]], Haigam has a total population of 6,212 people including 3,148 males and 3,064 with a literacy rate of 60.61%.<ref>{{cite web |title=Primary census abstract data for scheduled tribes, Jammu and Kashmir - District Baramula - 2011 |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/6199/download/9276/DDW_PCA0108_2011_MDDS%20with%20UI.xlsx |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220723112553/https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/41906/download/45537/PCA_ST0108_2011_MDDS_DDW.xlsx |archive-date=23 July 2022 |access-date=23 July 2022 |website=Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India}}</ref>

A 4,800-year-old pot found in apple orchard at Haigam is named after American actress [[Kim Kardashian]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Qamrain |first=Noor Ul |title=Kashmir names neolithic pot ‘Kim Kardashian’ |url=https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news/10930-kashmir-names-neolithic-pot-kim-kardashian |access-date=26 July 2022 |work=The Sunday Guardian Live |publisher=[[The Sunday Guardian]] |date=17 September 2017}}</ref>

Haigam is also one of the militancy-affected areas in Jammu & Kashmir district.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=India |last2=Parliament |last3=Lok Sabha |date=2001 |title=Lok Sabha Debates |journal=Lok Sabha Debates |language=English |pages=19 |issn=0445-6769 |via=WorldCat}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Human Rights Watch (Organization) |title=World Report 2002 : Events of 2001, November 2000-November 2001 |publisher=[[Human Rights Watch]] |year=2002 |isbn=978-1-56432-267-8 |location=New York |pages=226 |language=English}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Pakistan |last2=Ministry of Foreign Affairs |date=2001 |title=Foreign Affairs Pakistan |journal=Foreign Affairs Pakistan |language=English |volume=28 |issue=3 |pages=254, 257 |via=WorldCat}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Rao |first=Aparna |title=The Practice of War : Production, Reproduction and Communication of Armed Violence |last2=Bollig |first2=Michael |last3=Böck |first3=Monika |publisher=Berghahn |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-85745-141-5 |location=Oxford |pages=264 |language=English}}</ref>

== Tourism ==
The Haigam lake is interest of tourist visit.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lone |first=Farooq A |title=Palaeoethnobotany : Plants and Ancient Man in Kashmir |last2=Khan |first2=Maqsooda |last3=Buth |first3=Ghulam Mohd |publisher=[[CRC Press]] |year=2020 |isbn=978-1-003-07945-3 |location=Boca Raton, US |pages=5–97 |language=English}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Bhatt |first=Saligram |title=Kashmiri Scholars Contribution to Knowledge and World Peace |publisher=A.P.H. Pub. Corp. |others=Kashmir Education, Culture, and Science Society |year=2008 |isbn=978-81-313-0402-0 |location=New Delhi |pages=230 |language=English}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Nauk |first=Polska Akademia Nauk |last2=Orientalistyczna |first2=Komisja |date=1978 |title=Folia orientalia |journal=Folia orientalia |language=de |volume=19-21 |pages=134, 135 |issn=0015-5675 |via=WorldCat}}</ref>

== References ==

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[[Category:Villages in Baramulla district]]

Haigam - Revision history

SilviaVanwinkle at 21:32, 30 April 2026