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The Kanara region forms the coast of Karnataka situated on the south-western portion of Peninsular India. [13] Coastal Karnataka forms the northern segment of the Malabar coast . [ 14 ] Kanara constitutes an area of about 10,000 square kilometres (4,000 square miles). [ 15 ]
Map of South Kanara district in 1861. The taluk of Coondapoor was then in North Kanara but was transferred to South Kanara district when North Kanara was transferred to Bombay Presidency in 1862. The district was divided into six taluks: Amindivi Islands (Area:7.8 square kilometres (3 sq mi))
The Malabar Coast is the southwestern region of the Indian subcontinent. It generally refers to the western coastline of India stretching from Konkan to Kanyakumari . Geographically, it comprises one of the wettest regions of the subcontinent, which includes the southern tip of Goa , Kanara region of Karnataka , all of Kerala and Kanyakumari ...
The southern Indian state of Karnataka consists of 31 districts grouped into 4 administrative divisions, viz., Belagavi, Bengaluru , Gulbarga, and Mysore.Geographically, the state has three principal variants: the western coastal stretch, the hilly belt comprising the Western Ghats, and the plains, comprising the plains of the Deccan plateau.
Coastal South West India spans across the entire Arabian Sea coastline of the Indian subcontinent from the coastline of the Gulf of Kutch in its westernmost corner and stretches across the Gulf of Khambhat, and through the Salsette Island and Mumbai along the Konkan and southwards across the Raigad region and through Kanara and further down through Mangaluru and along the Malabar unto the ...
A 1652 Map of India (Malabar is highlighted separately on the right side) A 1744 map of Malabar Coast The district lay between the Arabian Sea on the west, South Canara District on the north, the Western Ghats (the princely states of Coorg and Mysore , and Nilgiris and Coimbatore districts) to the east, and the princely state of Cochin to the ...
Coastal India is a geo-cultural region in the Indian subcontinent that spans the entire coastline of India. [1] Indian total coastline is estimated to 11,098 km. [2] Gujarat has the longest coastline with 2340 km. Second longest coastline belongs to Andra pradesh with 973 km. Tamilnadu comes third with 906 km. West Bengal has the 721 km coastline.
The Carnatic region is the peninsular South Indian region between the Eastern Ghats and the Bay of Bengal, in the erstwhile Madras Presidency and in the modern Indian states of Tamil Nadu and southern coastal Andhra Pradesh. During the British era, demarcation was different and the region included current-day Karnataka and the whole region ...