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Chota Nagpur Plateau

Index Chota Nagpur Plateau

The Chota Nagpur Plateau is a plateau in eastern India, which covers much of Jharkhand state as well as adjacent parts of Odisha, West Bengal, Bihar and Chhattisgarh. [1]

101 relations: Asansol Sadar subdivision, Asian elephant, Barakar River, Bardhaman district, Bauxite, Bhimbandh Wildlife Sanctuary, Bihar, Blackbuck, Bokaro district, Bokaro River, Bokaro Steel City, Butea monosperma, Chhattisgarh, Chinkara, Coal, Coke (fuel), Copper, Cretaceous, Dalma Hills, Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary, Damodar River, Dassam Falls, Deccan Plateau, Dhanbad district, Dhole, Dodonaea, Dresden Museum of Ethnology, Durgapur subdivision, East Bokaro Coalfield, Eastern Ghats, Eastern Highlands moist deciduous forests, Ecoregion, Four-horned antelope, Gautam Budha Wildlife Sanctuary, Gaya district, Geography of Bankura district, Giridih district, Gondwana, Grand Trunk Road, Hazaribag Wildlife Sanctuary, Hazaribagh, Holarrhena, Hundru Falls, Indian grey hornbill, Indo-Gangetic Plain, Iron ore, Jamunia River, Jharia, Jharkhand, Jonha Falls, ..., Koderma district, Kolhan division, Lesser florican, Lilajan River, Limestone, List of ecoregions in India, Lodh Falls, Lower Gangetic plains moist deciduous forests, Madhuca longifolia, Mahanadi, Mahuda, Mica, Mohana River, Monsoon, Nagavanshi, Narmada Valley dry deciduous forests, National Highway 19 (India), National Highway 2 (India, old numbering), Netarhat, North Karanpura Coalfield, North Karo River, North Koel River, Odisha, Palamau Tiger Reserve, Palamu division, Parasnath, Plateau, Purulia district, Rajrappa, Ramgarh Coalfield, Ramnabagan Wildlife Sanctuary, Ranchi, Raniganj Coalfield, Sadni Falls, Sanjay National Park, Saptasajya, Saranda forest, Satpura Range, Shorea robusta, Simlipal National Park, Sloth bear, Son River, South Karanpura Coalfield, Subarnarekha River, Surguja district, Tamor Pingla Wildlife Sanctuary, Tiger, Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests, Washington, D.C., West Bengal, West Bokaro Coalfield. Expand index (51 more) »

Asansol Sadar subdivision

Asansol Sadar subdivision is an administrative subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the state of West Bengal, India.

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Asian elephant

The Asian elephant, or Asiatic elephant (Elephas maximus), is the only living species of the genus Elephas and is distributed in Southeast Asia, from India and Nepal in the west to Borneo in the south.

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Barakar River

The Barakar River is the main tributary of the Damodar River in eastern India.

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Bardhaman district

Bardhaman district (also spelled Burdwan or Barddhaman) was a district in West Bengal.

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Bauxite

Bauxite is a sedimentary rock with a relatively high aluminium content.

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Bhimbandh Wildlife Sanctuary

Bhimbandh Wildlife Sanctuary is a wildlife sanctuary in Bihar in the south west of Munger district.

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Bihar

Bihar is an Indian state considered to be a part of Eastern as well as Northern India.

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Blackbuck

The blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra), also known as the Indian antelope, is an antelope found in India, Nepal and Pakistan.

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Bokaro district

Bokaro district is one of the most industrialized zones in India.

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Bokaro River

The Bokaro River flows through the Hazaribagh and Bokaro districts in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

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Bokaro Steel City

Bokaro Steel City is a city located in East India in the state of Jharkhand.

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Butea monosperma

Butea monosperma is a species of Butea native to tropical and sub-tropical parts of the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia, ranging across India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, and western Indonesia.

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Chhattisgarh

Chhattisgarh (translation: Thirty-Six Forts) is one of the 29 states of India, located in the centre-east of the country.

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Chinkara

The chinkara (Gazella bennettii), also known as the Indian gazelle, is a gazelle species native to Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.

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Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.

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Coke (fuel)

Coke is a fuel with a high carbon content and few impurities, usually made from coal.

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Copper

Copper is a chemical element with symbol Cu (from cuprum) and atomic number 29.

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geologic period and system that spans 79 million years from the end of the Jurassic Period million years ago (mya) to the beginning of the Paleogene Period mya.

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Dalma Hills

Dalma range refers to the continuation of an assemblage of hills stretching over Jharkhand and West Bengal states in India.

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Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary

Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary is located 10 km from the city of Jamshedpur in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

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Damodar River

Damodar River (Pron: /ˈdæmoˌdaː/) is a river flowing across the Indian states of Jharkhand and West Bengal.

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Dassam Falls

The Dassam Falls (दशम जलप्रपात) (also known as Dassam Ghagh) is a waterfall located near Taimara village in Bundu police station of Ranchi district in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

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Deccan Plateau

The Deccan PlateauPage 46, is a large plateau in western and southern India.

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Dhanbad district

Dhanbad district is one of the twenty-four districts of Jharkhand state, India, and Dhanbad is the administrative headquarters of this district.

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Dhole

The dhole (Cuon alpinus) is a canid native to Central, South and Southeast Asia.

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Dodonaea

Dodonaea is a genus of about 70 species of flowering plants, often known as hop-bushes, in the soapberry family, Sapindaceae.

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Dresden Museum of Ethnology

The Dresden Museum of Ethnology (Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden) contains an ethnographic collection with more than 90,000 artefacts from all parts of the earth.

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Durgapur subdivision

Durgapur subdivision is an administrative subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the state of West Bengal, India.

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East Bokaro Coalfield

East Bokaro Coalfield is located in Hazaribagh and Bokaro districts in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

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Eastern Ghats

The Eastern Ghats are a discontinuous range of mountains along India's eastern coast.

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Eastern Highlands moist deciduous forests

The Eastern Highlands moist deciduous forests is a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of east-central India.

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Ecoregion

An ecoregion (ecological region) is an ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than a bioregion, which in turn is smaller than an ecozone.

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Four-horned antelope

The four-horned antelope (Tetracerus quadricornis), or chousingha, is a small antelope found in India and Nepal.

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Gautam Budha Wildlife Sanctuary

Gautam Budha Wildlife Sanctuary (also spelled Gautam Buddha) is a wildlife sanctuary located in Gaya district of Bihar state and Koderma district of Jharkhand state in east-central India.

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Gaya district

Gaya is one of the thirty-eight districts of Bihar state, India.

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Geography of Bankura district

Geography of Bankura district (বাঁকুড়া জেলার ভূগোল) refers to the geography of the present Bankura district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Giridih district

Giridih district is one of the twenty-four districts of Jharkhand state, India, and Giridih is the administrative headquarters of this district.

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Gondwana

Gondwana, or Gondwanaland, was a supercontinent that existed from the Neoproterozoic (about 550 million years ago) until the Carboniferous (about 320 million years ago).

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Grand Trunk Road

The Grand Trunk Road is one of Asia's oldest and longest major roads.

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Hazaribag Wildlife Sanctuary

Hazaribag Wildlife Sanctuary (earlier called Hazaribagh National Park) is a wildlife sanctuary in Jharkhand, India, about north of Ranchi.

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Hazaribagh

Hazaribagh (also spelled Hazaribag) is a city and a municipality in Hazaribagh district in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

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Holarrhena

Holarrhena is a genus of plant in the Apocynaceae family first described as a genus in 1810.

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Hundru Falls

The Hundru Falls (हुन्डरु जलप्रपात) is a waterfall located in Ranchi district in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

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Indian grey hornbill

The Indian grey hornbill (Ocyceros birostris) is a common hornbill found on the Indian subcontinent.

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Indo-Gangetic Plain

The Indo-Gangetic Plain, also known as the Indus-Ganga Plain and the North Indian River Plain, is a 255 million-hectare (630 million-acre) fertile plain encompassing most of northern and eastern India, the eastern parts of Pakistan, virtually all of Bangladesh and southern plains of Nepal.

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Iron ore

Iron ores are rocks and minerals from which metallic iron can be economically extracted.

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Jamunia River

The Jamunia River is a tributary of the Damodar River.

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Jharia

Jharia is a neighbourhood in Dhanbad in Jharkhand state, India.

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Jharkhand

Jharkhand (lit. "Bushland" or The land of forest) is a state in eastern India, carved out of the southern part of Bihar on 15 November 2000.

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Jonha Falls

The Jonha Falls (जोन्हा जलप्रपात) (also called Gautamdhara Falls) is a waterfall located in Ranchi district in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

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Koderma district

Koderma district is one of the twenty-four districts of Jharkhand state, India, and Koderma is the administrative headquarters of this district.

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Kolhan division

Kolhan division is one of the five divisions in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

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Lesser florican

The lesser florican (Sypheotides indicus), also known as the likh or kharmore, is a large bird in the bustard family and the only member of the genus Sypheotides.

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Lilajan River

The Lilajan River (also known by its older name: Niranjan River and also mentioned as Nilanjan River) flows through the Chatra and Gaya districts in the Indian states of Jharkhand and Bihar.

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Limestone

Limestone is a sedimentary rock, composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs.

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List of ecoregions in India

The Himalaya, which runs across India's northern tier, is the boundary between two of the Earth's great ecozones — the Palearctic, which covers most of temperate-to-arctic Eurasia, and Indomalaya, which covers most of the Indian subcontinent and extends into Indochina, Sundaland (Malaysia and western Indonesia) and the Philippines.

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Lodh Falls

The Lodh Falls (also known as Budh waterFalls) is a waterfall in a mid forest of Latehar district of Palamu division in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

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Lower Gangetic plains moist deciduous forests

The Lower Gangetic plains moist deciduous forests is a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of Bangladesh and eastern India.

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Madhuca longifolia

Mahua longifolia is an Indian tropical tree found largely in the central and north Indian plains and forests.

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Mahanadi

The Mahanadi is a major river in East Central India.

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Mahuda

Mahuda is a census town in Baghmara CD Block in Dhanbad subdivision of Dhanbad district in the Indian state of Jharkhand....

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Mica

The mica group of sheet silicate (phyllosilicate) minerals includes several closely related materials having nearly perfect basal cleavage.

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Mohana River

The Mohana River (also called Mohani River/Mohane River) flows through the Hazaribagh, Chatra and Gaya districts in the Indian states of Jharkhand and Bihar.

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Monsoon

Monsoon is traditionally defined as a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation, but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with the asymmetric heating of land and sea.

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Nagavanshi

The Nagavanshi or Nagavamshi dynasty were rulers in the area of the present Chhattisgarh state of India from around the 11th century CE to the 14th century.

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Narmada Valley dry deciduous forests

The Narmada Valley dry deciduous forests are a tropical dry forest ecoregion of central India.

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National Highway 19 (India)

National Highway 19 (NH 19) is a National Highway in India.

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National Highway 2 (India, old numbering)

Old National Highway 2 or Old NH 2, was a major National Highway in India, that connected the states of Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, and West Bengal.

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Netarhat

Netarhat is a town in Latehar district(earlier in the erstwhile Palamu district) in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

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North Karanpura Coalfield

North Karanpura Coalfield is located in Ranchi, Hazaribagh, Ramgarh and Chatra districts in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

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North Karo River

The North Karo River (ऊत्त्तरि कारो नदी.) drains the Indian state of Jharkhand.

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North Koel River

North Koel River flows through the Indian state of Jharkhand.

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Odisha

Odisha (formerly Orissa) is one of the 29 states of India, located in eastern India.

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Palamau Tiger Reserve

The Palamau Tiger Reserve is one of the nine original tiger reserves in India and the only one in the state of Jharkhand, India.

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Palamu division

Palamu division (पलामू प्रमण्डल) is one of the five divisions of Jharkhand state in eastern India.

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Parasnath

Parasnath is a mountain peak in the Parasnath Range.

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Plateau

In geology and physical geography a plateau (or; plural plateaus or plateaux),is also called a high plain or a tableland, it is an area of a highland, usually consisting of relatively flat terrain that is raised significantly above the surrounding area, often with one or more sides with steep slopes.

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Purulia district

Purulia district (Pron: puruliːaː) is one of the twenty three districts of West Bengal state in Eastern India.

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Rajrappa

Rajrappa is a waterfall and a pilgrimage centre in Ramgarh district in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

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Ramgarh Coalfield

Ramgarh Coalfield are located in Ramgarh district in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

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Ramnabagan Wildlife Sanctuary

Ramnabagan Wildlife Sanctuary is in Burdwan, West Bengal, India.

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Ranchi

Ranchi is the capital of the Indian state of Jharkhand.

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Raniganj Coalfield

Raniganj Coalfield is primarily located in the Asansol and Durgapur subdivisions of Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Sadni Falls

Sadni Falls (also called Sadnighagh Falls) is a waterfall located about from Rajadera village in Gumla district in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

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Sanjay National Park

The Sanjay National Park is located in Chhattisgarh and in the Koriya, Sidhi and Singrauli districts of Madhya Pradesh state, India.

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Saptasajya

Saptasajya is a village in Dhenkanal district, Odisha, India.

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Saranda forest

Saranda forest is a dense forest in the hilly region of West Singhbhum district in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

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Satpura Range

The Satpura Range is a range of hills in central India.

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Shorea robusta

Shorea robusta, also known as śāl, sakhua or shala tree, is a species of tree belonging to the Dipterocarpaceae family.

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Simlipal National Park

Simlipal National Park is a national park and a tiger reserve in the Mayurbhanj district in the Indian state of Odisha.

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Sloth bear

The sloth bear (Melursus ursinus), also known as the labiated bear, is an insectivorous bear species native to the Indian subcontinent.

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Son River

Son River (also spelt Sone); of central India is the second largest of the Ganges' southern tributaries after Yamuna River.

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South Karanpura Coalfield

South Karanpura Coalfield is located in Ramgarh district in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

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Subarnarekha River

The Subarnarekha River (also called the Swarnarekha River) flows through the Indian states of Jharkhand, West Bengal and Odisha.

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Surguja district

Surguja District is a district in the northern part of the state of Chhattisgarh in India.

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Tamor Pingla Wildlife Sanctuary

Tamor Pingla Wildlife Sanctuary is located in Surajpur District, Chhattisgarh, India.

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Tiger

The tiger (Panthera tigris) is the largest cat species, most recognizable for its pattern of dark vertical stripes on reddish-orange fur with a lighter underside.

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Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests

The tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forest biome, also known as tropical dry forest, monsoon forest, vine thicket, vine scrub and dry rainforest is located at tropical and subtropical latitudes.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

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West Bengal

West Bengal (Paśchimbāṅga) is an Indian state, located in Eastern India on the Bay of Bengal.

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West Bokaro Coalfield

West Bokaro Coalfield is located in Ramgarh district in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chota_Nagpur_Plateau

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