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A coastal plain (also coastal plains, coastal lowland, coastal lowlands) is an area of flat, low-lying land adjacent to a sea coast. A fall line commonly marks the border between a coastal plain and an upland area.
The Coastal India lie on either side of the Deccan Plateau, along the western and eastern coasts of India. They extend for about 6,150 km from the Rann of Kutch in the west to West Bengal in the east. They are broadly divided into the Western Coastal Plains and the Eastern Coastal Plains. The two coastal plains meet at Kanyakumari, the southernmost tip of the Indian mainland. The eastern coastal plain is located between The Bay of Bengal and the eastern Ghats and the western coastal plain is located between the Arabian Sea and the western Ghats.
In Australia, there exists the South East Coastal Plain in Victoria that includes the Gippsland Plain, the eastern portion of Melbourne, Otway Basin Plain and Warrnambool Plain subregions. The Gippsland Plain features the depressed coastal and alluvial plains, barrier dunes and flatlands. They mostly consist of grassland and grassy woodlands on yellow and grey textured fertile soils. South East Coastal Plain Biodiversity of South-Eastern Australia. Retrieved December 11, 2024. Another is the Swan Coastal Plain in Western Australia, which includes the city of Perth. IBRA Version 6.1 data It is one of the distinct physiographic provinces of the larger West Australian Shield division.
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