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I Lushai Hills: A mountain range in Mizoram and
Tripura, India, and is part of the Patkai Range system
Indira Point: A village in the Nicobar district at Great
Nicobar Island and is the location of the southernmost M
point of India’s territory Mahabharata Range: Also called the Lesser Himalaya
J or the Himachal, it is a major east-west mountain
range with elevations 3,700 to 4,500 metres along
Jaintia Hills: A district in Meghalaya, India that was
the crest, paralleling the much higher High Himalayas
established in 1972 with headquarters at Jowai
range
Jhelum River: A river in northern India and eastern
Mahanadi River: A major river in east central India
Pakistan and is the westernmost of the fi ve rivers of which fl ows through the states of Chhattisgarh and
the Punjab region Odisha
Jogfalls: The second highest plunge waterfalls in Mahendragiri: A hill in Tirunelveli District, South
India, located on the Sharavati River near Jog Village Tamil Nadu which is part of the southern range of the
in Sagara, Karnataka Western Ghats
K Makalu: The fi fth highest mountain in the world at
8,485 metres
Kanyakumari: A city of the Kanyakumari district in the
Malabar Coast: A coastline on the south-western
Indian State of Tamil Nadu which is the southernmost
shoreline of the mainland Indian subcontinent
city of peninsular or mainland India
Minicoy: Southernmost island of the Lakshadweep
Kathiawar Coast: A peninsula on the Indian west
territory, India, off the south-western coast of India
coast of about 61,000 square kilometres bordering
Mizo Hills: Mountain range in south-eastern Mizoram
the Arabian Sea and bounded by the Gulf of Kutch
state, north-eastern India, forming part of the north
in the north-west and by the Gulf of Khambhat in the
Arakan Yoma system
east
Kaveri River: An Indian river fl owing through the N
states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka which fl ows about
Naga Hills: Hills that lie on the border of India and
800 kilometres south-east to enter the Bay of Bengal
Myanmar, reaching a height of around 3,825 metres
Ken River: One of the major rivers of the Bundelkhand
Nanga Parbat: The ninth highest mountain in the
region of central India, and fl ows through two states,
world at 8,126 metres
Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh
Narmada River: Also called the Rewa and previously
Khasi Hills: A low mountain formation on the Shillong
also known as Nerbudda, it is a river in central India
Plateau in Meghalaya state of India, inhabited mainly
Nilgiri Hills: A range of mountains with plateaus in
by tribal Khasi dwellers
South India, in Tamil Nadu whose average height is
Konkan Coast: A coastal plain of western India, lying
2000 metres
between the Arabian Sea and the Western Ghats,
which stretches approximately 530 kilometres from P
the Daman Ganga River north of Mumbai to the Padma River: A major river in Bangladesh and is the
Terekhol River between Maharashtra and Goa main distributary of the Ganga, fl owing generally

Kotli Dun: A town located in the district of Shimla south-east for 120 kilometres
Krishna River: The fourth-biggest river in terms of Pal Ghat: A low mountain pass in the Western Ghats
water infl ows and river basin area in India between Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu and Palakkad in
Kerala
L Palk Strait: A strait between the Tamil Nadu state

Labyrinth Islands: Group of islands in the Andaman of India and the Mannar district of the Northern
Archipelago, India Province of the island nation of Sri Lanka

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