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Karnataka's coastline called Karavali stretches 320 km between Mangalore in Dakshina Kannada district and Karwar in Uttara Kannada district. Bhatkal is the main centre with around eight beaches . The coastline of Karnataka is along the eastern shore of Arabian Sea. [1] Karnataka's coastline spans across 3 districts Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and ...
Data marked The World Factbook or TWF covers 198 countries and 55 territories, from the book published by the Central Intelligence Agency. In addition to coastline lengths, this is the source of the land area used to calculate the "coast/area ratio" for both TWF and WRI (see below) coastline measurement.
Topographic map of Karnataka. Western Ghats are parallel to the coast. The Indian State of Karnataka is located between 11°30' North and 18°30' North latitudes and between 74° East and 78°30' East longitude.It is situated on a tableland where the Western Ghats and Eastern Ghats converge into the complex, in the western part of the Deccan Peninsular region of India.
Kannada is the official language of the state of Karnataka, as the native language of 66.46% of its population as of 2011 and is one of the classical languages of India. Urdu is the second largest language, spoken by 10.83% of the population, and is the language of Muslims outside the coastal region.
Coastal Development Authority was established in 2009. Mattar Ratnakar Hegde is the chairman of the authority. The State Government had granted ₹ 35 crore (US$4.2 million) to the authority for the year of 2022–2023. [3] [4]
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 ]
Karnataka Kasarkod beach in Kasarkod village in Uttara Kannada district. [1] Padubidri Beach in Udupi district. [1] Diu and Daman Ghoghla beach in Diu. [1] Gujarat Shivrajpur beach in Dwarka, at Shivrajpur village 12 km from Dwarka on Dwarka-Okha Highway. [1]
The development of ports is a state subject, and the Government of Karnataka established the Department of Ports and Inland Water Transport in 1957. The department maintains one major port and ten minor ports between Mangalore in the south and Karwar in the north. The only major port is the New Mangalore Port.