Eastern Ghats

American  

plural noun

1. a low mountain range in S India along the E margin of the Deccan plateau and parallel to the coast of the Bay of Bengal.

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Eastern Ghats British  

plural noun

1. a mountain range in S India, parallel to the Bay of Bengal: united with the Western Ghats by the Nilgiri Hills; forms the E margin of the Deccan plateau

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Example Sentences

Koundinya Wildlife Sanctuary is a long, thin strip of dry deciduous forest in the Eastern Ghats, a broken chain of mountains in the lower part of India.

From Scientific American

The surface of this table-land slopes from west to east, as indicated by the direction of the drainage of the country,—the great rivers, the Cauvery, Godavari, Kistna and Pennar, though deriving their sources from the base of the Western Ghats, all finding their way into the Bay of Bengal through fissures in the Eastern Ghats.

From Project Gutenberg

It is in shape an irregular parallelogram, divided into two nearly equal parts by the range of the Eastern Ghats, which intersects it throughout its entire length.

From Project Gutenberg

It flows across the Deccan from the Western to the Eastern Ghats; its total length is 900 m., the estimated area of its drainage basin, 112,200 sq. m.

From Project Gutenberg

The north-eastern part, known as the Agency tract, is occupied by spurs of the Eastern Ghats.

From Project Gutenberg