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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Vangchhia
| settlement_type = village
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| pushpin_map = India Mizoram#India
| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Mizoram, India
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| pushpin_map_caption1 = Location in India
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| subdivision_name = [[India]]
| subdivision_type1 = [[States and territories of India|State]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Mizoram]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of India|District]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Champhai district|Champhai]]
| subdivision_type3 = [[Block (district subdivision)|Block]]
| subdivision_name3 = [[Khawbung]]
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| seat_type = [[Panchayat]]
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| elevation_m = 1641
| population_as_of = 2011
| population_total = 837
| population_density_km2 = auto
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| timezone1 = [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
| utc_offset1 = +5:30
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'''Vangchhia''' is a village in the [[Champhai district]] of [[Mizoram]], [[India]]. It is located in the [[Khawbung]] [[Block (district subdivision)|R.D. Block]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dolr.nic.in/dolr/mpr/revenuevillagedirectorypdf/Mizoram.pdf |title=Mizoram villages |publisher=Land Records Information Systems Division, NIC |access-date=2015-08-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140806123151/http://dolr.nic.in/dolr/mpr/revenuevillagedirectorypdf/Mizoram.pdf |archive-date=2014-08-06 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The 171 [[menhir]] stones in the village became Mizoram's first protected archaeological site in 2012.<ref>{{cite news|title=Mizoram's first 'monument' - The menhirs of Vangchhia to be protected by ASI|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120603/jsp/frontpage/story_15563719.jsp#.UXqxZkrAFUs|access-date=26 April 2013|newspaper=The Telegraph (Calcutta)|date=3 June 2012}}</ref>

== Demographics ==

According to the [[2011 census of India]], Vangchhia has 153 households. The effective literacy rate (i.e. the literacy rate of population excluding children aged 6 and below) is 96.87%.<ref name="census_2011"/>

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Demographics (2011 Census)<ref name="census_2011">{{cite web |url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/1504_PART_B_DCHB_CHAMPHAI.pdf |title=District Census Handbook - Champhai |work=[[2011 Census of India]] |publisher=Directorate of Census Operations, Mizoram |access-date=2015-08-22 }}</ref>
! !! Total !! Male !! Female
|-
| Population || 837 || 424 || 413
|-
| Children aged below 6 years || 167 || 82 || 85
|-
| [[Scheduled caste]] || 0 || 0 || 0
|-
| [[Scheduled tribe]] || 815 || 413 || 402
|-
| Literates || 649 || 333 || 316
|-
| Workers (all) || 354 || 205 || 149
|-
| Main workers (total) || 343 || 199 || 144
|-
| Main workers: Cultivators || 319 || 182 || 137
|-
| Main workers: Agricultural labourers || 0 || 0 || 0
|-
| Main workers: Household industry workers || 0 || 0 || 0
|-
| Main workers: Other || 24 || 17 || 7
|-
| Marginal workers (total) || 11 || 6 || 5
|-
| Marginal workers: Cultivators || 10 || 5 || 5
|-
| Marginal workers: Agricultural labourers || 0 || 0 || 0
|-
| Marginal workers: Household industry workers || 0 || 0 || 0
|-
| Marginal workers: Others || 1 || 1 || 0
|-
| Non-workers || 483 || 219 || 264
|}

== Society ==

The Vangchhia tribe is native to this village. Vangchhia is the name of one of the eleven sub-tribes of Mizoram.<ref>{{cite book|last=Joshi|first=H. G.|title=Mizoram: Past and Present|year=2005|publisher=Mittal Publications|isbn=81-7099-997-9|page=8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YtX52F_qcWgC&dq=Vangchhia+Mizoram&pg=PA8}}</ref> They along with genealogically related clans like the Khawlhring, Pautu, Saivate, etc. form the greater [[Saihriem people|Faihriem]] group of clans. They trace their descent from [[Chunthang]], the son of Berhva. Traditions maintain that Chunthang was a very good man, and his good character earned him the hands of the Biete princess, Lalzaii. However, the couple could not nurture any child to maturity. The offspring out of the wedlock died at infancy. One night, in his dream he was told that the next child should be arranged to be born in another village and the child will survive. So, when the time for delivery of the next child came, the mother was taken to the village of the Thiek clan where she delivered a healthy boy. As the boy was born in another village, he was named 'Khualhring'. The boy later on became the progenitor of the Khawlhring clan. When the time for the next child came, Chunthang was again told to arrange for the child to be kept below the 'vang' tree near their house to ensure his survival. It was done so, and the child survived. The child was named 'Vangsie' or Vangchhia, indicating his first bed below the tree. Later, his descendants came to be known by that name. There are still Vangchhia with royal blood in them but records have been lost in time.

== References ==
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{{Champhai district}}

[[Category:Villages in Khawbung block]]

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