The Deccan Plateau:
- Streams into the Indian Ocean
- 31,800 square miles
- elevated anywhere 2,000-8,00 feet high
- comes from the Sanskrit word "Dushanbe" which means the south

The Tibetan Plateau:
- the "Roof of the World"
- average elevation is 16,400 feet high

Indian Plateaus

Plateau: an area of raised but level land
Two Plateaus in India/Southern Asia