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Saurashtra, also known as Kathiawar, [1] is a peninsular region of Gujarat, India, located on the Arabian Sea coast. It covers about a third of Gujarat state, notably 11 districts of Gujarat, including Rajkot District .
For a detailed map of all disputed regions in South Asia, see Image:India disputed areas map.svg Internal borders The borders of the state of Meghalaya, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh are shown as interpreted from the North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) Act, 1971, but has yet to be verified.
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Saurashtra State, formally known as United State of Kathiawar and later United State of Saurashtra, was a State of India that existed between 1948 and 1956, [1] ...
The Saurashtra people, or Saurashtrians, [2] [3] are an Indo-Aryan ethno-linguistic Hindu Brahmin community of South India who speak the Saurashtra language, an Indo-Aryan Gujarati language, and predominantly reside in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.
Saurashtra, Sourashtra, or variants may refer to: Saurashtra (region), also known as Sorath, a region of Gujarat, India Kathiawar, also called Saurashtra Peninsula, a peninsula in western India; Saurashtra (state), alias United State of Kathiawar, a former Indian state, merged into Bombay State and since its dissolution part of present Gujarat
Kathiawar ([kɑʈʰijɑʋɑɽ]) is a peninsula, near the far north of India's west coast, of about 61,000 km 2 (23,500 sq mi) bordering the Arabian Sea.It is bounded by the Gulf of Kutch in the northwest and by the Gulf of Khambhat in the east.
The region of Saurashtra is a geologically active part of West India, and falls in the seismic zone 3 of the Zoning Map of the Bureau of Indian Standards. The region as a whole and the area around Bhavnagar, in particular, has been tectonically unstable.