Porahat is a village in West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand state in eastern India. Before Indian independence in 1947, it was the capital of a princely state of British India. Porahat Forest Division is named after this village.

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Porahat
Village
Country	India
State	Jharkhand
Government
• Type	Sabha
• Body	Monarch
Languages
• Official	Hindi, Santali, HO
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
Vehicle registration	JH 06

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Forest divisions in West Singhbum are:

• Saranda Forest Division
• Kolhan Forest Division
• Porahat Forest Division
• Chaibasa (South) Forest Division

• Taylor, James H. (1904). Final Report on the Survey and Settlement Operations in the Porahat Estate, District Singhbhum, 1900-1903. Bengal Secretariat Press. OCLC 140060257. Alt URL

22°36′N 85°26′E

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