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Shillong Plateau

Highland in Eastern Meghalaya and is an outlier of plateau of Peninsular India

Plateau's western, northern and southern end are Garo, Khasi and Jaintia hills respectively

Composed of ancient rocks and contains reserves of Coal, Iron ore, Limestone, etc

Shillong Peak is the highest point

Important Facts about Meghalaya

World's Largest cave fish discovered from Um Ladaw cave in Meghalaya's Jaintia Hills

World's longest Sandstone cave (around 24.5 Km) named Krem Puri is in Khasi hills

Further India's longest caves are present in Meghalaya

Meghalayan Age refers to  4200 years ago to present. It comes under Holocene Epoch. This was discovered after studying Stalagmites of Mawmluh caves in Meghalaya

Living Root Bridges are also a paradise to watch

Important places: Mawsynram, Cherrapunji (wettest place) in Khasi hills

In 2018 Mahabaleshwar of Maharashtra received more rainfall than Cherrapunji

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