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Southern
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Plateaus

Plateau and I

You may live far from the plateau region, yet it has a

profound effect on your life. Most of the metals, with
which a great number of things are made, are mined
in the plateaus. The spices, which make your food
healthy and tasty, are also grown in the plateaus. The
AFGHANISTAN
plateaus also play a very important role in
I
ndus
Srinagar
technological development of the country. Jhelum
PAKISTAN Chen b Our life C H I N A
a
will be dull without metals, spices and technology. Beas TIBET
i
Rav Satluj
Satluj Shimla L. Mansarowar
ndus Chandigarh Tsangpo Lohit
Dehradun
I
A plateau is a high, flat land. DELHI Kosi
NE
It is a rocky area with a PAL Itanagar
m
L. Sambhar bal Yamun a Lucknow BHUTAN Brah apu r t a
Gangtok
number of low hills. Central uni Jaipur ham G and Gangtok Dispur Kohima
C
Dispur
Kohima
Shillong
L t Bana s Sind Betw a Ganga Goma i t ak Shillong
and South India is mostly a Sabarma i Chambal Malwa Patna Tist a Imphal
Imphal
Malwa
plateau, and is also called Malwa Plateau Plateau Son Plateau Damo dar BANGLA Agartala Tr opic of Cancer
Chot
Chota Nagpura Nagpur
Plateau
Mahi
DESH
Plateau
Gandhinagar Bhopal Kolkataa
Kolkat
the great peninsular plateau . Narmada II N N D D I I A A Ranchi MYANMAR
Mahanadi
Tapi
The southern plateaus are Daman Silvassa Penganga Raipur New Moore l.
the largest land feature of Godavari Indravati Bhubaneswar
Mumbai
B M L. Chilika
anja
hima
our country. They are ARABIAN ra Go BAY
Deccan
SEA Deccan Hyderabad davari OF
Krishna
located to the south of the r shna K i Plateau G h a t s BENGAL
Plateau

northern plains. They are Panaji W e s t e r n G h a t s Tu ngabha dra s t e r n
P
E a L. Kolleru
enne u r
triangular in shape, broad in
L. Pulicat
the north and narrow Ma Jog Falls Pennai Chennai
Bengaluru
Nilgiri Hills Puducherry
towards the south. labar Coast Kave yar el t India
ri
Annamalai Hills Coromand C oas (Southern Plateaus) (India) Andaman and Nicobar slands
The southern plateaus can (India) wee Kavaratti V aigai
Lakshad
be divided into two parts : p I
Thiruvananthapuram
SRI
Malwa Plateau and Deccan Not to scale INDIAN OCEAN
LANKA
Plateau.
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