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Saurashtra peninsula is bound on the south and south-west by the Arabian Sea, on the north-west by the Gulf of Kutch and on the east by the Gulf of Khambhat.From the apex of these two gulfs, the Little Rann of Kutch and Khambhat, waste tracts half salt morass half sandy desert, stretch inland towards each other and complete the isolation of Kathiawar, except one narrow neck which connects it ...
The Kutch Peninsula occupies an area of 45,612 km 2 (17,611 sq mi) and forms the western most part of the Indian mainland, bordering Pakistan. The 352 km (219 mi) long coastline stretches from the Indus River delta in the north to the Gulf of Kutch. [3] The Rann of Kutch occupies most of the region and is semi-arid and dry. [15]
Saurashtra State, formally known as United State of Kathiawar and later United State of Saurashtra, was a State of India that existed between 1948 and 1956, [1] on Saurashtra alias Kathiawar peninsula, with Rajkot as its capital, [2]
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The Gulf of Kutch is located between the peninsula regions of Kutch and Saurashtra, bounded in the state of Gujarat that borders Pakistan. It opens towards the Arabian Sea facing the Gulf of Oman . It is about 50 km wide at the entrance before narrowing into marshland, creeks and inlets. [ 1 ]
After Indian independence and the partition of India in 1947, the new Indian government grouped the former princely states of Gujarat into three larger units; Saurashtra, which included the former princely states on the Kathiawad peninsula, Kutch, and Bombay state, which included the former British districts of Bombay Presidency together with ...
Image: NASA Earth Observatory Map of Gujarat showing the Greater Rann of Kutch and Little Rann of Kutch Rann of Kutch – Highest Point Rann of Kutch – White Desert Rann of Kutch – White Desert 2 Tropic of Cancer – a few miles from Rann of Kutch. The Great Rann of Kutch is a salt marsh in the Thar Desert in the Kutch District of Gujarat ...
Kathiawar ([kɑʈʰijɑʋɑɽ]) is a peninsula, near the far north of India's west coast, of about 61,000 km 2 (23,500 sq mi) bordering the Arabian Sea.It is bounded by the Gulf of Kutch in the northwest and by the Gulf of Khambhat in the east.