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Coastal Plains

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and Islands

AFGHANISTAN
Islands and I Ind

Srinagar us
lum
Located in deep sea, away from the mainland, the two C H I N A
Jhe
enab
PAKISTAN
Ch
Beas
groups of islands are important for the security of the TIBET
Ravi
Satluj
country. Also, they are very popular for tourism. Shimla L. Mansarowar
atluj
S Chandigarh Lo
ndus Dehradun Tsangpo hit
I
DELHI Kosi
Y
Itanagar
L. Sambhar a anga G BHUTAN
Chamb l
amuna
Coastal Plains Luni Jaipur Lucknow G Ga Gangtokangtok Dispurspur utra Ko
G
Di
Kohimahima
Shilonghilong
S
ati Banas Sind om ti nd ak Ti Brahmap
a
rm ba l etwa B G nga sta I Imphalmphal
a
In addition to the S a ba Cham arbat i Son Patna r D m BANGLA Agartala
a oda
n
northern plains, there Gandhinagar M ahi P Bhopal Ko DESH Tr pic of Ca ce r
o
Kolkatalkata
are two strips of plains Narmada II N N D D I I A A Ranchi MYANMAR
Tapi Mahanadi
all along the seacoast in Guj a P ng nga e Raipur
Dam
Damanan Silvassa a
rat Co
South India. As they are ast Godavari Indravati Bhubaneshwar
Mumbai Bhi cars
located along the ARABIAN ma Manjara Cir BAY
seacoast, they are called K shna r h a K is n Hyderabad Godavari h ern OF
ri
coastal plains . SEA Konk dra N ort BENGAL
Coas
Panaji gabha
t
an
The seacoast in South Tun P nne u ast
e
r
India is about 6,100 km C o
Jog Falls
Chennaihennai
C
Bengaluru Pennaiyar el India
long. You have studied Malaba
Puduc
Puducherryherry mand (Coastal Plains)
that the Deccan Plateau Laksh r C Kaveri oro
is bounded by the (India) oast Va C (India) Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Kavaratti
ig

ai
Western Ghats to the
adweep
Thiruvananthapuram
west and the Eastern SRI
LANKA
Not to scale INDIAN OCEAN Indira Point
Ghats to the east. The
hills of these Ghats
gradually slope towards the sea and form the plains.
We can divide the coastal plains into two : western coastal plains and eastern coastal
plains . The eastern coastal plains are along the Bay of Bengal and are wider than the
western coastal plains which are along the Arabian Sea.
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