🗺 Physiographic divisions
The Coastal Plains
Maps show India’s boundaries as officially depicted by the Government of India. Rivers, ranges and regions are drawn from Natural Earth’s public-domain data and are approximate.
The western coastal plain is a submerged coast — narrow, without deltas, and good for natural ports such as Kandla, Mazagaon, JLN Port (Nhava Sheva), Marmagao, Mangalore and Cochin; the Malabar coast has kayals (backwaters). The eastern coastal plain is broader, an emergent coast, with the deltas of the Mahanadi, Godavari, Krishna and Kaveri and fewer ports. (The map outlines the Malabar and Coromandel coasts.)
📘 NCERT Class 11, India: Physical Environment, Ch. 2 (Structure and Physiography) ↗
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How we check: every fact is written from NCERT Class 11, India: Physical Environment (chapters 1–3), and our build fails unless key phrases from each passage are found in the chapter’s own text. Lengths, heights and areas are given only as NCERT gives them. Shapes come from Natural Earth’s public-domain physical data; features with no reliable map data are described but not drawn.