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The Thar Desert, also known as the Great Indian Desert, is an arid region in the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent that covers an area of 200,000 km 2 (77,000 sq mi) in India and Pakistan. It is the world's 18th-largest desert, and the world's 9th-largest hot subtropical desert.
The Thar Desert (also known as the deserts) is by some calculations the world's seventh largest desert, by some others the tenth. [48] It forms a significant portion of western India and covers an area of 200,000 to 238,700 km 2 (77,200 to 92,200 sq mi). [49] The desert continues into Pakistan as the Cholistan Desert.
This is a list of the largest deserts in the world by area. It includes all deserts above 50,000 km 2 (19,300 sq mi). Some of Earth 's biggest non-polar deserts
The Thar Desert, also known as the Great Indian Desert, is a large, arid region in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent that forms a natural boundary between India and Pakistan. It is the world's 16th largest desert, and the world's 9th largest subtropical desert. 85% of the Thar Desert is in India, and the remaining 15% is in ...
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To keep the Rajkumari Ratnavati Girl’s school cool in the heat of the Thar desert, New York architect Diana Kellogg incorporated a range of traditional and natural cooling methods.
Here are eight different ways to discover desert Africa: Trek some of the world’s tallest sand dunes (Namibia) ... Located around a six-hour drive north of Cape Town, Namaqua National Park ...
Sunset on the sand dunes at Thar desert located in North Indian state of Rajasthan. North India lies mainly on continental India, north of peninsular India. [citation needed] Towards its north are the Himalayas which define the boundary between the Indian subcontinent and the Tibetan plateau.