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This area still has some important cities, most notably Lunahīkam (the capital of Talæñoya), while Līlasuṃghāṇa and Lūkṣṇyaḍāra lie just outside this area.

The Plain is Calémere's most densely settled large area, with settlements especially dense on the main rivers, on coastal areas, and in the areas of freshwater springs. These springs (''jašam'', pl. ''jašāk'') are, for humans, the most important geographical feature, as their water, channeled in man-made canals called ''varṣāh'' (pl. ''varṣai''), provides irrigation to the agricultural activities of the area. Rice is the main cultivation, with wheat becoming increasingly common travelling west, where the climate is more arid. Potatoes, dāhāmai and lambā (all tubers) are also common staple foods extensively grown there, as are soybeans and various other types of legumes, bananas~plantains and coconuts (esp. in the east), and many other types of fruits and vegetables. The transitional, more humid climate in the coastal Jade Coast and around lake Lūlunīkam, transitional between the Plain and the South, hosts an immense variety of orchards as well as about 60% of the whole tea production on Calémere.

====The South====

The South is the large area occupying most of the southern portion of the main subcontinental body of the Inquisition, excluding the western coast. The vast majority of the area is covered by equatorial rainforests, the largest continuous such tract on Calémere, with the exception of the highest elevations and of Hāyanidēva, which, being located in the rainshadow of the Hanaɂušin mountains, has an arid climate, revealing itself in satellite imagery as a patch of desert in the middle of the rainforest. The northern border of the South is sometimes considered to be the drainage divide between the basins of the Jade Coast and those of the Great Southern Ocean (a divide used administratively), but biogeographically the wall of igapós and várzeas in the southern third of Ārvaghoṣa, Talæñoya, and southern Nanaširama is used as a border.

The South is very sparsely settled: the inland rainforest is inhabited by a plethora of ethnic groups, Chlouvānemized to various degrees, almost all of them numbering in the thousands of people and limited to a few villages; coastal areas are more populated, but still 90% of the South's population are concentrated in the three metropolitan areas of Lūlunimarta (6 million people), Hālyanēṃṣah (5 million), and Kælšamīṇṭa (1.8 million, not on the coast but on the delta of the Yunaikhūla, the South's longest river and also the one with the largest drainage basin). Still, even in the dioceses containing these cities, the territory outside those metropolitan areas is sparsely settled. The diocese of Ājvalēnia, in the northeastern part of the region, bordering the Jade Coast to the north, is the only one with an actual network of settlements, but (unlike the Jade Coast, and more similar to the "villages on rivers" pattern of the South) almost all along its three major rivers. The mountains in northern Ājvalēnia include mount Maichlikaiṭah, an extinct volcano which is, at 6ºN, the only point in the Inquisition's tropics with a permanent snow cover at the top.

====Political borders and links====

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 This area still has some important cities, most notably Lunahīkam (the capital of Talæñoya), while Līlasuṃghāṇa and Lūkṣṇyaḍāra lie just outside this area.
+The Plain is Calémere's most densely settled large area, with settlements especially dense on the main rivers, on coastal areas, and in the areas of freshwater springs. These springs (''jašam'', pl. ''jašāk'') are, for humans, the most important geographical feature, as their water, channeled in man-made canals called ''varṣāh'' (pl. ''varṣai''), provides irrigation to the agricultural activities of the area. Rice is the main cultivation, with wheat becoming increasingly common travelling west, where the climate is more arid. Potatoes, dāhāmai and lambā (all tubers) are also common staple foods extensively grown there, as are soybeans and various other types of legumes, bananas~plantains and coconuts (esp. in the east), and many other types of fruits and vegetables. The transitional, more humid climate in the coastal Jade Coast and around lake Lūlunīkam, transitional between the Plain and the South, hosts an immense variety of orchards as well as about 60% of the whole tea production on Calémere.
+====The South====
+The South is the large area occupying most of the southern portion of the main subcontinental body of the Inquisition, excluding the western coast. The vast majority of the area is covered by equatorial rainforests, the largest continuous such tract on Calémere, with the exception of the highest elevations and of Hāyanidēva, which, being located in the rainshadow of the Hanaɂušin mountains, has an arid climate, revealing itself in satellite imagery as a patch of desert in the middle of the rainforest. The northern border of the South is sometimes considered to be the drainage divide between the basins of the Jade Coast and those of the Great Southern Ocean (a divide used administratively), but biogeographically the wall of igapós and várzeas in the southern third of Ārvaghoṣa, Talæñoya, and southern Nanaširama is used as a border.
+The South is very sparsely settled: the inland rainforest is inhabited by a plethora of ethnic groups, Chlouvānemized to various degrees, almost all of them numbering in the thousands of people and limited to a few villages; coastal areas are more populated, but still 90% of the South's population are concentrated in the three metropolitan areas of Lūlunimarta (6 million people), Hālyanēṃṣah (5 million), and Kælšamīṇṭa (1.8 million, not on the coast but on the delta of the Yunaikhūla, the South's longest river and also the one with the largest drainage basin). Still, even in the dioceses containing these cities, the territory outside those metropolitan areas is sparsely settled. The diocese of Ājvalēnia, in the northeastern part of the region, bordering the Jade Coast to the north, is the only one with an actual network of settlements, but (unlike the Jade Coast, and more similar to the "villages on rivers" pattern of the South) almost all along its three major rivers. The mountains in northern Ājvalēnia include mount Maichlikaiṭah, an extinct volcano which is, at 6ºN, the only point in the Inquisition's tropics with a permanent snow cover at the top.
 ====Political borders and links====