- The Peninsular Plateau is one of the oldest and most stable landforms of the earth.
- Roughly triangular in shape with its base coinciding with the southern edge of the great plain of North India. The apex of the triangular plateau is at Kanyakumari.
- It is pre-Cambrian in origin.
- It covers a total area of about 16 lakh sq km.
- The average height of the plateau is 600-900 m above sea level
- The Peninsular Plateau is an aggregation of several smaller plateaus like Mewar, Malwa, Chhotanagpur, Meghalaya, Deccan Plateau, and Kathiawar Plateau.