coastal plain

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For decades, L.A.’s hazy blue days and golden pink dusks have given way to nights speckled with golden orange, where amber streetlights twinkle across hills, valleys and coastal plain like stars in the sky.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026

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

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

The coastal plain rivers in leaden serpentine across the wasted farmland.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy