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On the Deccan's western border, the Western Ghats drop sharply down to a narrow
coastal lowland, forming a luxuriant slope of rainforest.
The Andoman and Nicobar Islands comprise 572 islands and are the peaks of a vast submerged moun-
tain range extending almost 1000km between Myanmar (Burma) and Sumatra.
The Islands
Offshore from India are a series of island groups, politically part of India but geographic-
ally linked to the landmasses of Southeast Asia and islands of the Indian Ocean. The An-
daman and Nicobar Islands sit far out in the Bay of Bengal, while the coral atolls of Lak-
shadweep (300km west of Kerala) are a northerly extension of the Maldives islands, with
a land area of just 32 sq km.
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