Chhatisgarh
the S. E. division of the Central Provinces of India, with an area, including feudatory states, of 21,240 square miles; pop. about 3,500,000 .
It is mainly a vast fertile plateau, and has of late become a great center of the Indian grain trade. Dongargaon is the capital.
CHIANA (kē-ä'nä; ancient, Clanis), a river of central Italy, originally a tributary of the Tiber, watering the perfectly level Val di Chiana, which its overflow rendered once the most pestilential district of Italy. The bed was deepened in 1789-1816, and in 1823 extensive hydraulic works were undertaken for further improving the river course, and for the river Arno, a few miles below Arezzo, leading a N. branch, through canals, to the S. stream reaching the Tiber through the Paglia at Orvieto. ouble The double stream is 60 miles long, and 1½ to 1 mile broad; and the district has since become one of the most fruitful in all Italy.