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The Central Indian States, Madhya
Pradesh is a vast plateaux surrounded by the vindhya and satpura mountains,
that rise from 600 to 1,300 m and make a rugged descent into the valleys of
Narmada and Rapti rivers.
India's largest state, lies sprawled across her very heart,
occupying an area as large as Iraq or Sweden (443,446 sq.km.). A land of
contrasts, it has the Malwa plateau in the north-west covered with black
cotton-soil, rolling plains interspersed with hills of the Vindhyanchal
range which run east-west across the middle, river valleys (notably of the
holy Narmada river), and thick forests.