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title: "Terai Belt: Physiography, Soils & UPSC Notes"
description: "The Terai Belt is a fertile lowland crucial for agriculture, located south of the Himalayas, and is significant for UPSC candidates and policy researchers."
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Model Diplomat Research Team · Last reviewed June 22, 2026

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- The Terai Belt is a low-lying, marshy lowland strip of fertile alluvium running along the southern foot of the Himalaya between the Bhabar zone and the northern Indo-Gangetic plain.
- What is the difference between the Bhabar and the Terai Belt?
- Why was the Terai historically uninhabited and later densely settled?
- Where does the Terai Belt lie in Nepal and why does it matter politically?
- Which protected areas fall within the Indian Terai?

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The Terai Belt is a low-lying, marshy lowland strip of fertile alluvium running along the southern foot of the Himalaya between the Bhabar zone and the northern Indo-Gangetic plain.

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In 1960 the Government of India established the Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology at Pantnagar on reclaimed Terai Belt land in Uttarakhand, anchoring the region's Green Revolution wheat and rice production.

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