Since the state has a long coastal belt the winters are not very cold.

The eastern coastal belt is warm and comparatively dry.

The coastal belt is about 81 km wide and shaped like a strip.

The plantation was a success and led to a large scale planting along the coastal belt.

About 176 people were killed and 1600 injured in the coastal belt.

A coastal belt about thirty meters above sea level surrounds the island.

The coastal belts were also converted zealously by the western missionaries.

Karnataka has one major and ten minor ports in this coastal belt.

The coastal belt has a rather different landscape.

Temperatures in summer are generally unpleasantly hot apart from the eastern coastal belt.