Chota Nagpur Plateau

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The Chota Nagpur Plateau (also Chhota Nagpur) is a plateau in eastern India, which covers much of Jharkhand state as well as adjacent parts of Orissa, Bihar, and Chhattisgarh. The Indo-Gangetic plain lies to the north and east of the plateau, and the basin of the Mahanadi River lies to the south. There are beautiful waterfalls such as Lodh Falls. The plateau is made up of ancient Precambrian rocks. Deposits of Coal support the industries of the Damodar Valley. Chota Nagpur is made up of three smaller plateaus, the Ranchi, Hazaribagh, and Kodarma plateaus. The Ranchi plateau is the largest of the plateaus, with an average elevation of 700 meters. The total area of Chota Nagpur is approximately 65,000 sq km.

Much of the plateau is forested, with Sal trees predominant, and is covered by the Chota Nagpur dry deciduous forest ecoregion. The plateau is one of the few remaining refuges left in India for tigers and Asian Elephants.

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Geography of South Asia
	Himalaya \| Western Ghats \| Eastern Ghats \| Aravalli Range \| The Nilgiris \| Vindhya Range \| Satpura Range \| Garo Hills \| Shivalik Hills \| Khasi Hills \| Annamalai Hills \| Cardamom Hills \| Sulaiman Mountains \| Karakoram \| Hindu Kush \| Chittagong Hill Tracts \| Deccan Plateau \| Thar Desert \| Makran \| Chota Nagpur \| Naga Hills \| Mysore Plateau \| Ladakh Plateau
	Indo-Gangetic plain \| Indus River Delta \| Ganga basin \| Ganges Delta \| Atolls of Maldives \| Coromandel Coast \| Konkan \| Lakshadweep \| Andaman and Nicobar Islands \| Sundarbans \| Rann of Kutch
Main	India \| Pakistan \| Nepal \| Bhutan \| Sri Lanka \| Bangladesh \| The Maldives \| Portal:Himalaya region

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