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- 4 Saputara — the only hill station of Gujarat. It is in the Western Ghats, about 150 km from Surat.
- 5 Silvassa — an industrial city in Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
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South Gujarat is one of the wettest regions of India. Its geography varies widely from the coastal plains in the west to the Western Ghats in the east. Some parts of the Southern Gujarat (Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman (India)) were under Portuguese rule for centuries alongside Goa and Diu. The rest of Southern Gujarat was under the British rule till independence.
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By plane edit
Surat Airport (STV IATA) is a domestic airport in Surat. Air India has daily flights to and from Delhi. SpiceJet operates daily from Surat to Mumbai (Bombay) and Delhi.
By road edit
Most of the highways that connect Gujarat with the rest of India goes through this region.
- From Delhi, Agra and other places in the Plains: Take the National Highway 48 (NH 48).
- From Mumbai, Jaipur, Jodhpur and other places in Western India: Take the National Highway 48 (NH 48).
- From Nagpur and other places in Vidarbha: Take the National Highway 53 (NH 53).
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There are trains from and to Mumbai (500 km) and New Delhi (1000 km) and other big cities of India several times a day going to Surat.
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As in the rest of Gujarat, most people in this region travel by private buses or by taxi.
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As in the rest of Gujarat, alcohol is forbidden in most of South Gujarat, except in Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman.
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