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PHYSICAL FEATURES AND NATURAL RESOURCES
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BOUNDRIES.
Stretching nearly 80 miles along the Tapi river, and varying in
breadth from seventy to ninety miles, Jalgaon forms an upland
basin, one of the most northerly sections of the Deccan table-land.
Along the whole northern frontier, the district is bounded by the
Satpuda ranges, a mountain tract from thirty to forty miles wide.
On the north-eastern side, the district is bounded by the territories
of the Madhya Pradesh State. Quite a major portion of the
northern boundary is marked by the tributary Aner which in the
west continues to separate Jalgaon from Dhulia till its junction with the Tapi. On the east and south-east, a range of low and
detached hills and some major streams, without any marked
natural boundary, separate Jalgaon from the districts of Vidarbha.
To the south, the Ajanta, Satmala and Chandor ranges may roughly
be said to mark the line between Jalgaon and the Marathwada
territory. Within these limits, in several places along the south
boundary, the Marathwada territory runs north of the Ajanta
range. On the west Jalgaon shares its boundary with the Nasik district over a stretch of about 25 miles, and then with the Dhulia
district for about 50 miles, the Panjhra river being the only
natural feature demarcating ft over a major stretch.
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