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Name four places in India which undergoes landslide.
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- Western ghats and Konkan hills.
- Darjeeling and Sikkim (NE Himalayas)
- Northwest Himalayas (Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir)
- Eastern ghats (Araku region in Andhra Pradesh)
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