Saurashtra - સૌરાષ્ટ્ર

Saurashtra - સૌરાષ્ટ્ર Saurashtra (સૌરાષ્ટ્ર ) is a peninsular region of western India, located on the Ar Sorath forms the southern portion of the peninsula.

Saurashtra peninsula is bound on the south and south-west by the Arabian sea, on the north-west by the Gulf of Kutch and on the east by the Gulf of Khambhat. From the apex of these two gulfs, the Little Rann of Kutch and Khambhat, waste tracts half salt morass half sandy desert, stretch inland towards each other and complete the isolation of Kathiawar, except one narrow neck which connects it on t

he north-east with the mainland of Gujarat.[1][2]

The peninsula is sometimes referred to as Kathiawar after the Kathi Darbar, which once ruled most of the region. The Saurastra region comprises the south western part of modern Gujarat state and the districts included in this region are Rajkot, Jamnagar, Junagadh, Bhavnagar, Porbandar, Amreli, Surendranagar, Devbhoomi Dwarka, Morbi, Gir Somnath and some portions of Ahmedabad and Botad Districts also fall under this area. The region also historically encompassed the Diu district of the Daman and Diu union territory

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