Question

Give a brief account of the coastal plains.

Answer 1

The Peninsular Plateau is flanked by stretch of narrow coastal strips, running along the Arabian Sea on the west and the Bay of Bengal on the east. The Western coast is sandwiched between the Western Ghats and the Arabian sea. It is a narrow plain. It consists of three sections:
(i) The northern part of the coast is called the Konkan (Mumbai-Goa). 01 (ii) The central stretch is called the Kannad plain.
(iii) The southern stretch is referred to as the Malabar coast. The plains along the Bay of Bengal are wide and level. In the northern part, it is referred to as the Northern Circar, while the southern part is known as the Coromandel Coast. Large rivers such as the Mahanadi , the Godavari, the Krishna and the Kaveri have formed large delta on this coast. Lake Chilka is located on the eastern coast.