MAKING OF A MEGA STATE

 MAHARASHTRA
As one of the largest states in the nation, Maharashtra occupies a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau in the western peninsular part of the subcontinent. It’s shape roughly resembling a triangle. The western state spreads with a 725-kilometre western coastline forming the base and the interior narrowing to a blunt apex some 500 miles to the east. The state is bounded by the Arabian Sea in the west, Gujarat in the northwest, Madhya Pradesh in the north, Andhra Pradesh in the south-east, and Karnataka and Goa in the south.