The city of Surat forms a major urban core in the Ahmedabad-Bombay regional corridor, centrally placed between both the settlements, at a distance of 260 Km north of Bombay and 224 Km south of Ahmedabad. Gujarat is located on the west coast of India and boasts of a 1,600 Km long coastline. The Arabian Sea sweeps off the western and south western frontiers of the state of Gujarat.