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प्रश्न
Western coastal plains receive more rainfall than the Eastern coastal plains.
उत्तर
Western coastal plain receives more rainfall than eastern coastal plain because western coastal plain lies on the windward side of western Ghats and gets rainfall more than 200 cm but Eastern coastal plain lies on the leeward side of the Western Ghats and gets a little rainfall (50 to 100 cm).
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The city of Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh has a higher range of temperature than that of Chennai in Tamil Nadu.
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | June | July | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
| Temperature in °C |
23.1 | 24.8 | 26.5 | 29.2 | 32 | 32.8 | 33.1 | 32.1 | 30.5 | 29.3 | 28.7 | 26.1 |
| Rainfall cm | 15.3 | 10.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1.3 | 4.5 | 6.1 | 10.2 | 10.5 | 20.1 | 16.8 | 19.0 |
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