Malabar Coast is situated in which of the following states of India? (Choose…

India's coastline is classified into named stretches based on location and physiography. The western coast, running from the Gulf of Kutch to Kanyakumari, is divided (north to south) into the Kutch-Kathiawar coast, the Konkan coast, the Karavali (Kannada) coast, and the Malabar coast; the eastern coast, running from West Bengal to Tamil Nadu, is divided into the Northern Circars and the Coromandel Coast.

The Malabar Coast is the name given to the southern-most stretch of the western coastal plain, lying in the state of Kerala (with a short overlap into adjoining Karnataka). This is confirmed by RSSB's official Shift 2 answer key for this question.

• Gujarat's coastline forms the Kutch-Kathiawar tract, the northern-most stretch of the western coast, not the Malabar Coast.

• Maharashtra's coastline forms the Konkan Coast, the stretch between the Kutch-Kathiawar tract and the Karavali coast.

• Odisha's coastline lies on the Utkal Plain, part of the Eastern Coastal Plain along the Bay of Bengal, structurally unrelated to the Malabar Coast.

• Kerala's coastline is the Malabar Coast itself, the southern-most stretch of the western coastal plain.

Hence, the Malabar Coast is situated in Kerala.