coastal plain

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Their ridges tower up to 3,000 feet over the coastal plain where 70% of Israel’s population and Ben Gurion Airport reside.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

Thursday’s announcement follows last month’s news that the Interior Department will also open the entire coastal plain of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leasing.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025

Far from the remote mountain landscape you might imagine, Perrier's water is pumped from deep aquifers in the coastal plain between Nîmes and Montpellier, a short drive from the Mediterranean.

From BBC • Aug. 8, 2025

The Houthis command the Tihamah coastal plain, the eastern littoral of the Red Sea.

From Salon • Jul. 14, 2024

Situated in the coastal plain of southwest Alabama, the fertile, rich black soil of the area attracted white settlers from the Carolinas who amassed very successful plantations and a huge slave population.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson