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Middle Mountainous Region

Eastern Ghats, Odisha

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Middle Mountainous Region

Middle Mountainous Region

Eastern Ghats

The Middle Mountainous Region covers about three-fourth of the entire State and comprises the hills and mountains of the Eastern Ghats, which rise abruptly and steeply in the east and slope gently to a dissected plateau in the west running from north-east (Mayurbhanj) to north-west (Malkangiri).