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Madhya Pradesh has exactly five neighbours: Uttar Pradesh in the north, Chhattisgarh in the east, Maharashtra in the south, Gujarat in the west and Rajasthan in the north-west.

The Malwa plateau, around Indore, Ujjain and Dewas, is built of basalt poured out as Deccan trap lava, and the weathering of that basalt has given it the deep black soil on which the state's cotton, wheat and soybean are grown.

Chhattisgarh was created out of the eastern districts of Madhya Pradesh on 1 November 2000 under the Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000.

The Chambal rises at Janapav hill near Mhow in Indore district, on the southern edge of the Malwa plateau, and flows north and then north-east into the Yamuna, cutting the deep ravines that form the boundary between Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.

The Narmada does not flow in a valley cut by its own water but along a long structural trough, a rift, with the Vindhya forming its northern wall and the Satpura its southern wall.

The Narmada rises on the Amarkantak plateau, at about 1,057 metres, where the Satpura and Maikal ranges meet, and flows westward for about 1,312 kilometres in all, of which roughly 1,077 kilometres lie inside Madhya Pradesh, before reaching the Gulf of Khambhat.

Dhupgarh, 1,350 metres, stands in the Pachmarhi group of the Mahadeo hills within the Satpura range and is the highest point of Madhya Pradesh.

Madhya Pradesh lies between these parallels and between 74 degrees 9 minutes east and 82 degrees 48 minutes east longitude.

Madhya Pradesh covers 308,245 square kilometres, about 9.4 per cent of India, which makes it the second largest state after Rajasthan and the largest landlocked state of the country.

The Tropic of Cancer, 23 degrees 30 minutes north, crosses Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Tripura and Mizoram, moving from west to east.

A low, almost imperceptible divide runs through Haryana, roughly from the Shivalik near Ambala and Kurukshetra down to the Aravalli ridge near Delhi.

The commission headed by Justice J. C. Shah was appointed in 1966 to work out the division of Punjab, and on its recommendation the Hindi-speaking districts were formed into Haryana, the hill districts went to Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh became a union territory.

The National Capital Territory of Delhi lies within the eastern arm of Haryana, which encloses it on three sides, while Uttar Pradesh lies on the fourth.

Nardak is the old name for the high, fertile tract of the Karnal, Kaithal and Kurukshetra belt, lying above the flood plains on old alluvium and now among the most productive wheat and rice land in the country.

Along with Fatehabad and Mahendragarh, these districts form the bagar belt, where sand carried in from the Thar makes dunes and sandy soil, rainfall drops to about 30 centimetres and no perennial stream flows.

The low, broken, rocky ridges of Gurugram, Nuh, Faridabad, Rewari and Mahendragarh are the worn northern end of the Aravalli, the oldest fold mountain system of India, which continues into Delhi as the Ridge.

The Ghaggar enters Haryana from the Shivalik, flows south-west past Kaithal and Fatehabad and is checked at the Ottu weir in Sirsa district, from which canals take its water; beyond that point its dry bed continues into Rajasthan, where it is lost in the sand.

The Yamuna flows along the eastern boundary of Haryana with Uttar Pradesh and is the only river of the state that carries water throughout the year, because it is fed by Himalayan snow.

Karoh peak, 1,467 metres, stands in the Morni hills of Panchkula district, where the Shivalik ranges enter Haryana in the extreme north-east.

Haryana came into being on 1 November 1966 under the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966, when the Hindi-speaking districts of the old Punjab were formed into a new state, the hill areas went to Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh was made a union territory to serve as capital of both Punjab and…