Deccan

The Deccan is a plateau of over 422,000 km2 on the southern part of , from the Satpura and Vindhya ranges in the north to the northern fringes of in the south.
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  • Plateau with an elevation of 627 metres (2,057 feet)
  • Description: large plateau in India
  • Also known as
    “Central Plateau”
    “Deccan Plateau”
  • Neighbors:

Deccan

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Latitude
14° north
Longitude
77° east
Open location code
7J6V2222+22
Geo­Names ID
1273342
Wiki­data ID
Q169966

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Deccan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الدكن”
  • Arabic: “بلاد الدكن”
  • Arabic: “دكن”
  • Arabic: “هضبة الدكن”
  • Armenian: “Դեկանի սարահարթ”
  • Asturian: “Decán”
  • Azerbaijani: “Dəkkan yaylası”
  • Azerbaijani: “Dəkkən yaylası”
  • Bashkir: “Декан (яҫы таулыҡ)”
  • Bashkir: “Декан”
  • Basque: “Dekan goi-ordokia”
  • Basque: “Dekan”
  • Basque: “Dekkan goi-ordokia”
  • Basque: “Dekkan”
  • Belarusian: “Дэканскае пласкагор’е”
  • Bengali: “डेक्कन”
  • Bengali: “दक्शिण”
  • Bengali: “দাক্ষিণাত্য মালভূমি”
  • Bhojpuri: “दक्कन पठार”
  • Bulgarian: “Декан (плато)”
  • Bulgarian: “Декан”
  • Catalan: “Altiplà de Deccà”
  • Catalan: “Decan”
  • Catalan: “Dècan”
  • Catalan: “Deccan”
  • Catalan: “Dèccan”
  • Cebuano: “Deccan”
  • Cebuano: “Dekan”
  • Chinese: “德干”
  • Chinese: “德干地区”
  • Chinese: “德干高原”
  • Croatian: “Deccan”
  • Croatian: “Dekan”
  • Czech: “Dákkhin”
  • Czech: “Dakšin”
  • Czech: “Dakšinská plošina”
  • Czech: “Deccan Plateau”
  • Czech: “Dekán”
  • Czech: “Dekanská pahorkatina”
  • Czech: “Dekanská plošina”
  • Czech: “Dekánská plošina”
  • Czech: “Dekanská vysočina”
  • Danish: “Deccanplateauet”
  • Dutch: “Dekan”
  • Dutch: “Hoogland van Dekan”
  • Dutch: “Hoogland van Dekkan”
  • Dutch: “Plateau van Deccan”
  • Dutch: “Plateau van Dekan”
  • Esperanto: “Dekka Altebenaĵo”
  • Esperanto: “Dekkana Altebenaĵo”
  • Esperanto: “Dekko”
  • Estonian: “Dekkani kiltmaa”
  • Estonian: “Dekkani lavamaa”
  • Estonian: “Dekkani platoo”
  • Finnish: “Deccanin ylänkö”
  • Finnish: “Dekkan”
  • French: “Decan”
  • French: “Deccan”
  • French: “Dékan”
  • French: “Dekkan”
  • Galician: “Deccan”
  • Georgian: “დეკანის ზეგანი”
  • Georgian: “დეკანის პლატო”
  • German: “Dakshinapatha”
  • German: “Deccan”
  • German: “Dekhan”
  • German: “Dekkan”
  • Greek: “Ντέκαν οροπέδιο”
  • Greek: “Ντεκκάν Οροπέδιο”
  • Greek: “Ντέκκαν”
  • Greek: “Οροπέδιο Ντέκκαν”
  • Hebrew: “רמת דקאן”
  • Hindi: “दक्कन का पठार”
  • Hungarian: “Dekkán-fennsík”
  • Indonesian: “Dataran Tinggi Dekkan”
  • Italian: “altopiano del Deccan”
  • Italian: “Altopiano del Deccan”
  • Italian: “Deccan”
  • Japanese: “デカン地方”
  • Japanese: “デカン高原”
  • Kannada: “ಡೆಕ್ಕನ್ ಪ್ರಸ್ಥಭೂಮಿ”
  • Kannada: “ದಖನ್ ಪ್ರಸ್ತಭೂಮಿ”
  • Kannada: “ದಖ್ಖನ್ ಪೀಠಭೂಮಿ”
  • Kannada: “ದಖ್ಖನ್ ಪ್ರಸ್ಥಭೂಮಿ”
  • Khmer: “Deccan plateau”
  • Kirghiz: “Декан бөксө тоосу”
  • Korean: “데칸고원”
  • Latin: “Dachinabades”
  • Latin: “Deccanus”
  • Latin: “Planities elevata Deccanensis”
  • Latvian: “Dekāna”
  • Latvian: “Dekānas plakankalne”
  • Latvian: “Dekānas plato”
  • Lithuanian: “Dekano plokščiakalnis”
  • Macedonian: “Декан”
  • Malay: “Penara Dakkan”
  • Malayalam: “Deccan”
  • Malayalam: “ഡക്കാൻ പീഠഭൂമി”
  • Malayalam: “ഡെക്കാൺ പീഠഭൂമി”
  • Malayalam: “ഡെക്കാൺ”
  • Malayalam: “ഡെക്കാൻ പീഠഭൂമി”
  • Malayalam: “ഡെക്കാൻ”
  • Marathi: “दख्खनचे पठार”
  • Marathi: “दख्खनेचे पठार”
  • Marathi: “दख्ख्ननचे पठार”
  • Mazanderani: “دکن”
  • Mingrelian: “დეკანიშ გაბარი”
  • Nepali: “डेक्कन पठार”
  • Nepali: “दक्खिन पठार”
  • Northern Frisian: “Dekkan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Deccan-platået”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Deccan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Deccan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Deccanplatået”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dekkan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dekkanplatået”
  • Norwegian: “Deccan”
  • Ossetian: “Декан”
  • Pampanga: “Dekan”
  • Panjabi: “ਦੱਖਣੀ ਪਠਾਰ”
  • Persian: “دکن”
  • Polish: “Dekan”
  • Polish: “Wyżyna Dekan”
  • Polish: “Wyżyna Dekańska”
  • Portuguese: “Decã”
  • Portuguese: “Decão”
  • Portuguese: “Deccan”
  • Portuguese: “Península do Decã”
  • Portuguese: “Planalto de deccan”
  • Portuguese: “Planalto do Decão”
  • Romanian: “Dekkan”
  • Russian: “Декан”
  • Russian: “Деканское плоскогорье”
  • Russian: “Деккан”
  • Russian: “Плато Декан”
  • Serbian: “Visoravan Dekan”
  • Serbian: “Висораван Декан”
  • Serbian: “Декан”
  • Serbian: “Деканска висораван”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dekan”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dekanska visoravan”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Visoravan Dekan”
  • Sindhi: “دکن”
  • Sinhala: “ඩෙකාන් සානුව”
  • Sinhala: “ඩෙකාන්”
  • Sinhala: “ඩෙකෑන් සානුව”
  • Sinhala: “ඩෙකෑන්”
  • Slovak: “Dekanská plošina”
  • Slovenian: “Dekanska planota”
  • Spanish: “Decan”
  • Spanish: “Decán”
  • Spanish: “Deccan”
  • Spanish: “Deccán”
  • Swahili: “Dekkani”
  • Swedish: “Deccan (platå i Indien)”
  • Swedish: “Deccan”
  • Swedish: “Deccanplatån”
  • Swedish: “Dekhan”
  • Tagalog: “Dakilang Matangway na Talampas”
  • Tagalog: “Dakilang Peninsular na Talampas”
  • Tagalog: “Dakilang Talampas na Matangway”
  • Tagalog: “Dakilang Talampas na Peninsular”
  • Tagalog: “Dakkhin”
  • Tagalog: “Decan”
  • Tagalog: “Deccan plateau”
  • Tagalog: “Deccan”
  • Tagalog: “Dekanong Talampas”
  • Tagalog: “Great Peninsular Plateau”
  • Tagalog: “Matangway na Talampas”
  • Tagalog: “Peninsular Plateau”
  • Tagalog: “Talampas Dekano”
  • Tagalog: “Talampas na Dekano”
  • Tagalog: “Talampas na Matangway”
  • Tagalog: “Talampas na Peninsular”
  • Tagalog: “Talampas Peninsular”
  • Tajik: “Дакан”
  • Tamil: “தக்காண பீடபூமி”
  • Tamil: “தக்காண மேட்டுநிலம்”
  • Tamil: “தக்காணத்து மேட்டுநிலம்”
  • Tamil: “தக்காணப் பீடபூமி”
  • Tamil: “தக்கான பீடபூமி”
  • Telugu: “దక్కను పీఠభూమి”
  • Telugu: “దక్కన్ పీఠభూమి”
  • Thai: “ที่ราบสูงเดกกัน”
  • Turkish: “Deccan Platosu”
  • Turkish: “Deccan yaylası”
  • Turkish: “Dekken Yaylası”
  • Turkish: “Dekken”
  • Ukrainian: “Декан”
  • Ukrainian: “Деканське плато”
  • Ukrainian: “Деканське плоскогір’я”
  • Ukrainian: “Плато Декан”
  • Urdu: “دکن”
  • Urdu: “سطح مرتفع دکن”
  • Uzbek: “Dekan yassitogʻligi”
  • Vietnamese: “Cao nguyên Deccan”
  • Vietnamese: “Deccan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Umpas Deccan”
  • Western Panjabi: “دکھن پٹھار”
  • Western Panjabi: “سطح مرتفع دکھن”
  • Wu Chinese: “德干高原”
  • Yue Chinese: “Dakkhinapatha”
  • Yue Chinese: “Deccan Plateau”
  • Yue Chinese: “Deccan”
  • Yue Chinese: “德干”
  • Yue Chinese: “德干高原”

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