Deccan
The Deccan is a plateau of over 422,000 km2 on the southern part of India, from the Satpura and Vindhya ranges in the north to the northern fringes of Tamil Nadu in the south.Photo: Zeman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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- Type: plateau
- Description: large plateau in India
- Also known as: “Deccan Plateau”
- Neighbors: Western Ghats
Deccan
- Location: India, South Asia, Asia
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”
- 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”
- 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”
- 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: “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”
- “दक्कन पठार”
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