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INDIAN GEOGRAPHY
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Southern India is mostly a Deccan Plateau, which is separated from northern plain by the ____
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Himalayan mountains
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Vindhya mountains
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Satpura hills
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Mount Everest
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The large Deccan Plateau of the Indian Subcontinent is located between the Western Ghats and the Eastern Ghats, and is loosely defined as the peninsular region between these ranges that is south of the Narmada river. To the north, it is bounded by the Satpura and Vindhya Ranges.
Detailed explanation-2: -The mountain ranges of the Vindhya and Satpura are located to the north of the Deccan Plateau.
Detailed explanation-3: -Deccan, the entire southern peninsula of India south of the Narmada River, marked centrally by a high triangular tableland. The name derives from the Sanskrit daksina (“south”). The plateau is bounded on the east and west by the Ghats, escarpments that meet at the plateau’s southern tip.
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