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===Physical geography===

====The Great Plain====

The heart of Chlouvānem civilization is the huge area usually simply described as the Plain (''dhoya'' in Chlouvānem). There is actually no single accepted name for this huge area, but commonly used ones are "The Great Plain" (''camidhoya'') or "Great Chlouvānem Plain" (''chlǣvānumi camidhoya'', but more commonly found in foreign sources). ~~Another~~ common name is Nīmbaṇḍhāra-Lāmberah Plain (''~~Nīmbaṇḍhāri~~ lāmberi no dhoya''), but it only refers to a part of it.

The heart of Chlouvānem civilization is the huge area usually simply described as the Plain (''dhoya'' in Chlouvānem). There is actually no single accepted name for this huge area, but commonly used ones are "The Great Plain" (''camidhoya'') or "Great Chlouvānem Plain" (''chlǣvānumi camidhoya'', but more commonly found in foreign sources). Perhaps the most common native name for it is Nīmbaṇḍhāra-Lāmberah(-Lirāh) Plain (''nīmbaṇḍhāri lāmberi no (lirī no) dhoya''), but it only refers to a part of it.

The Great Plain is basically one of the largest plains on Calémere as well as one of its most densely populated areas; most of it is part of the drainage basins of a few large rivers: two of them, the Nīmbaṇḍhāra - Calémere's longest river - and the Lirāh, have a common shared delta in the northeastern part of the plain; the other major ones all have a common estuary in the southeast, formed by the outlet of the tidal Lake Lūlunīkam. All of these basins are only divided by a few minor hills, so that the impression is of being in a single, continuous plain which spans, at its largest extents, twenty degrees of latitude and almost forty-five degrees of longitude. The highest relief inside the plain itself is Kahandrāta hill, on the border between the dioceses of Mūrajātana and Pūracikāna, about 940 meters high. However, near the foothills of the Camipāṇḍa mountains, thousands of kilometers away from the sea, the plain terrain reaches similar (and higher) elevations; these are somewhat noticeable in some areas, such as Cambhaugrāya in the northeastern part, where rivers sometimes form gorges and run tens of metres lower than the surrounding terrain.

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 ===Physical geography===
 ====The Great Plain====
-The heart of Chlouvānem civilization is the huge area usually simply described as the Plain (''dhoya'' in Chlouvānem). There is actually no single accepted name for this huge area, but commonly used ones are "The Great Plain" (''camidhoya'') or "Great Chlouvānem Plain" (''chlǣvānumi camidhoya'', but more commonly found in foreign sources). Another common name is Nīmbaṇḍhāra-Lāmberah Plain (''Nīmbaṇḍhāri lāmberi no dhoya''), but it only refers to a part of it.
+The heart of Chlouvānem civilization is the huge area usually simply described as the Plain (''dhoya'' in Chlouvānem). There is actually no single accepted name for this huge area, but commonly used ones are "The Great Plain" (''camidhoya'') or "Great Chlouvānem Plain" (''chlǣvānumi camidhoya'', but more commonly found in foreign sources). Perhaps the most common native name for it is Nīmbaṇḍhāra-Lāmberah(-Lirāh) Plain (''nīmbaṇḍhāri lāmberi no (lirī no) dhoya''), but it only refers to a part of it.
 The Great Plain is basically one of the largest plains on Calémere as well as one of its most densely populated areas; most of it is part of the drainage basins of a few large rivers: two of them, the Nīmbaṇḍhāra - Calémere's longest river - and the Lirāh, have a common shared delta in the northeastern part of the plain; the other major ones all have a common estuary in the southeast, formed by the outlet of the tidal Lake Lūlunīkam. All of these basins are only divided by a few minor hills, so that the impression is of being in a single, continuous plain which spans, at its largest extents, twenty degrees of latitude and almost forty-five degrees of longitude. The highest relief inside the plain itself is Kahandrāta hill, on the border between the dioceses of Mūrajātana and Pūracikāna, about 940 meters high. However, near the foothills of the Camipāṇḍa mountains, thousands of kilometers away from the sea, the plain terrain reaches similar (and higher) elevations; these are somewhat noticeable in some areas, such as Cambhaugrāya in the northeastern part, where rivers sometimes form gorges and run tens of metres lower than the surrounding terrain.