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A map of West India.
West India is a region of India consisting of the states of Maharashtra, Gujarat, and Goa, along with the Union Territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli. Maharashtra, in particular, is in many respects intermediate between North India and South India; but the region has definite particularities of its own. Much of this area was formerly part of the Bombay Presidency.

The region consists geographically of the predominantly arid to semi arid region of Saurastra, Kutch and Cambay (in Gujarat), western ghats along the west coast in Maharastra and Goa and the deccan plains of the Vidarbha and Marathwada in Central eastern Maharastra. The Aravalli range are the another geographical feature that are a part of northern Gujarat frontier.

This region is the economically most prosperous and developed region of India with respect to standards of living, infrastructure and education. Gujarat is a major milk producer with an established textile and oil exploration/production industry. While the city of Mumbai naturally dominates the economical figures of India & Maharastra, the state has a major sugar industry in the Vidarbha region while other agricultural products such as fruits (grapes and oranges) are the grown in Marathwada and the famous Alphonso Mangoes in the Konkan region.

The most widely spoken languages here are Marathi, Gujarati, Hindi,(in Mumbai Konkani and Malvani along the Konkan Coast and Goa. Ganesha is a particularly important deity in this region. The people belong to the ancient Indo-Aryan stock though they are mixed with the Indo Greeks, the Indo-Scythians and the Huns.

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Marine Drive in Mumbai.
Mumbai is the great metropolis of the region; but there are many other important cities, including Pune,Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara and Nashik. Although Nagpur is an important city of Maharastra, the city is geographically more a part of central India.

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States:
  1. Andhra Pradesh
  2. Arunachal Pradesh
  3. Assam
  4. Bihar
  5. Chhattisgarh
  6. Goa
  7. Gujarat
  8. Haryana
  9. Himachal Pradesh
  10. Jammu and Kashmir
  11. Jharkhand
  12. Karnataka
  13. Kerala
  14. Madhya Pradesh
  1. Maharashtra
  2. Manipur

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Maharashtra (Marathi: महाराष्ट्र
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Gujarat (Gujarati: ગુજરાત
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Coordinates: Goa pronunciation   (help info ) (Konkani: गोंय goṃya; Marathi:
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Daman and Diu (Gujarati: દમણ અને દિવ, Marathi: दमण आणि दीव, Portuguese: Damão e Diu) is a union territory in India.
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Dadra and Nagar Haveli (Gujarati: દાદરા અને નગર હવેલી, Marathi: दादरा आणि नगर हवेली,
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Northern India is a geographic and linguistic-cultural region of India which approximately corresponds to the northern region of the Indian subcontinent. In traditional Indian geography, India is divided into five major zones: North India, North-East India, East India, West India
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South India is a commonly used term that is used in India to refer to the South-of-India or Southern India. The Southern part of the Indian peninsula is a linguistic-cultural region of India that comprises the four states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu
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The Bombay Presidency was a former province of British India. It was established in the 17th century as trading posts of the British East India Company, but later grew to encompass much of western and central India, as well as parts of post-partition Pakistan and the Arabian
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Western Ghats (Sahyadri)

The Western Ghats at Matheran near Mumbai


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The Aravalli Range is a range of mountains in western India running approximately 300 miles from northeast to southwest across Rajasthan state. The northern end of the range continues as isolated hills and rocky ridges into Haryana state, ending near Delhi.
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Mumbai (Marathi: मुंबई Mumbaī
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Marathi}}} 
Writing system: Devanagari script, Modi script (traditional) 
Official status
Official language of: States of Maharashtra and Goa , Union territories of Daman-Diu<ref name="goa" /> and Dadra Nagar Haveli<ref name="dadra"
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Gujarati or Gujrati may refer to:
  • Gujarati language, spoken in India in the western state of Gujarat
  • Gujarati script, the script used for writing Gujarati language
  • Gujarati people, the people native to the state of Gujarat

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Hindi}}} 
Writing system: Devanagari script 
Official status
Official language of:  India
 Fiji (as Hindustani)
Regulated by: Central Hindi Directorate (only in India)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-1: hi
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Mumbai (Marathi: मुंबई Mumbaī
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Konkan, also called the Konkan Coast or Karavali, is a rugged section of the western coastline of India from Raigad to Mangalore. It includes Mumbai Region and Thane District. The sapta-Konkan is a slightly larger region described in the Skanda-purana.
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Ganesha (Sanskrit: गणेश; Gaṇeśa
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Indo-Aryans are a wide collection of peoples united by their common status as speakers of the Indo-Aryan (Indic/Indian) branch of the family of Indo-European and Indo-Iranian languages.
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Indo-Greek Kingdom (or sometimes Graeco-Indian Kingdom[2]) covered various parts of the northwest and northern Indian subcontinent from 180 BCE to around 10 CE, and was ruled by a succession of more than thirty Hellenic and Hellenistic kings,[3]
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The Indo-Scythians are a branch of the Indo-Iranian Sakas (Scythians), who migrated from southern Siberia into Bactria, Sogdiana, Arachosia, Gandhara, Kashmir, Punjab, and into parts of Western and Central India, Gujarat and Rajasthan, from the middle of the 2nd century BCE
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For other uses, see Hun (disambiguation).
The Huns were an early confederation of Central Asian equestrian nomads or semi-nomads with a Turkic speaking aristocracy [1].
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Mumbai (Marathi: मुंबई Mumbaī
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Coordinates: Pune (IPA: puːneɪ, Marathi: पुणे) is a city located in the western Indian state of Maharashtra.
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Coordinates: Ahmedabad (Gujarati: અમદાવાદ Amdāvād, Hindi: अहमदाबाद
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Surat pronunciation   (help info )
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Vadodara (Gujarati: વડોદરા   (help info ) , Marathi: बडोदा), also known as Baroda
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Nashik (Marathi: नाशिक) ( pronunciation   (help info ) ) or Nasik
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