 The main factors in the expansion of the town is due to its position on thc main railway route to important towns; the timber of the forests; the resources of coal fields near the village; and the activities of a Christian mission, with its school for vocational training.Dornakal is in the tropical zone about 400 miles south of the Tropic of Cancer.Its altitude is less than 1,000 feet above sea level, and it is about 150 miles from the sea.