Question

maintain the feature of Western Coastal plain

Answer 1

The western coastal plains are relatively rocky and with sand and sand dunes

The western coast is broken and indented and suitable for ports

It receives heavy rain fall

It lies along the west coast of India and is washed by Arabian sea...

High Tides hit coast real hard. So coastal erosion, natural ports

Historically, British India had trade contacts mainly with the Western world & Arabs. So natural choice was ports on Eastern coast.

Answer 2

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Here are few features of Western Coastal Plains :

• These plains are sandwiched between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea.
• They are very narrow as compared to the Eastern coastal plains.

• The plains consist of three sections, Konkan in the North, Kannad in the middle and Malabar in the South.

• They have a number of ports because of the highly indented coastline.

• They get heavy rain during the monsoon due to the Western Ghats causing orographic rain.