
West India is a region of India consisting of the states of Maharashtra, Gujarat, and Goa, along with the Union Territories of Daman and Diuand Dadra and Nagar Haveli. Maharashtra, in particular, is in many respects intermediate between North India andSouth India; but the region has definite particularities of its own. Much of this area was formerly part of the Bombay Presidency
The region consists geographically of the predominantly arid to semi arid region of Saurastra, Kutch and Cambay (in Gujarat), western ghats along the west coast in Maharastra and Goa and the deccan plains of the Vidarbha and Marathwada in Central eastern Maharastra. The Aravalli range are the another geographical feature that are a part of northern Gujarat frontier. |