Write in brief about Peninsular Plateau.

Located in the south of the Northern Great Plains, this Peninsula Plateau is triangular in shape covering an area of 16 lakh sq.kms with an average height of 600-900m composed of the oldest rocks. Surrounded by hill ranges on all sides such as the Aravalli, Vindhya, Satpura and Rajmahal ranges in the north, the Western Ghats in the west and the Eastern Ghats in the east, The plateau is divided by the Narmada river into two parts. One is The Central Highlands which includes the Bundelkhand, the Malwa plateau, the Baghelkhand lying to the east of Mailkala range, the Chotanagpur plateau and parts of the Vindhya Range. Whereas the other is The Deccan Plateau covering vast portions of the southern part of the country with an area of 5lakh sq.km, made up of lava and covered with black soil, bounded by the Satpura and the Vidhya ranges in the northwest, the Mahadev and Maikala ranges in the north and the western and eastern Ghats in its east and west respectively.