Detailed Solution. The correct answer is Himachal Pradesh. The Thar Desert is situated in the Indian state of Rajasthan and stretches to the states of Gujarat, Punjab and Haryana, and the Pakistani province of Sindh.
Detailed Solution. The correct answer is the Indus valley desert. The Indus Valley Desert is an almost uninhabited desert ecoregion of northern Pakistan.
More than 60% of the desert lies in the Indian state of Rajasthan; the portion in India also extends into Gujarat, Punjab, and Haryana. The portion in Pakistan extends into the provinces of Sindh and Punjab (the portion in the latter province is referred to as the Cholistan Desert).
The Indian desert is present in Rajasthan and Gujarat.
Right, as you will find desert sites only in Rajasthan, & wrong as only 2/5 area of Rajasthan is desert, which is the western part of the state, from Pushkar to Jaisalmer, and comes under Thar desert.
The Thar Desert, also known as the Great Indian Desert is the largest desert in India. It spreads around 77,000 square miles of territory.
I know that India is not a desert because of monsoon wind which causes heavy rain. But China doesn't have that kind of wind. Also Tibet which is in Southwest China is very dry because the moist air doesn't get over the Himalayas.
The Great Rann of Kutch is one of the most spectacular deserts in India. Also known as the White Rann, the desert is spread over 7505 square kilometres and is coated with a thick layer of salt, making it one of the largest salt deserts in the world.
Desertification has lost so much land that, according to a report by the United Nations Environment Program, it is now considered to be degrading up to 40% of the earth's surface. The largest river basin in India is the Ganga Basin, which receives water from the Himalayas in the north and the Vindhyas in the south.
The Thar Desert is located in northwest India. It is one of the major hot deserts of the world with the highest population density .
The Western part of Rajasthan is a desert because the temperature remains very high in summer and the Aravallis lie parallel to the path of the Arabian Sea Branch of the southwest monsoons , there by causing no orographic rainfall.
60% of the desert lies in the Indian state of Rajasthan, and it spreads into other states of Gujarat, Punjab, Haryana, and the Pakistani province of Sindh.
The Thar desert though one of the smallest deserts in the world it harbours a wide array of flora and faunal species. It is only place where Rajasthan State Bird (Great Indian Bustard), State animal (Chinkara) and State tree (Khejri) and State flower (Rohida) are found naturally.
Delhi lies in the landlocked Northern Plains of the Indian Subcontinent. Its climate is greatly influenced by its proximity to the Himalayas and the Thar Desert, causing it to experience both weather extremes. Delhi has 5 distinct seasons, viz. Summer, Rainy, Autumn, Winter and Spring.
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The 5 largest deserts on earth
Sahara Desert: 9.2 million km² (3.5 million square miles). Arabian Desert: 2.3 million km² (800,000 square miles). Gobi Desert: 1.295 million km² (500,000 square miles).
Arabian Desert
The Arabian Desert is the largest desert in Asia and the fourth largest in the world. It encompasses most of the Arabian Peninsula and is found within nine individual countries, which is the second most out of any desert on this list.
Ladakh is the cold desert of India which lies in the Greater Himalayas. Ladakh is towards the east of Jammu & Kashmir. Ladakh shares borders with China. The cold desert in Ladakh is enclosed by the Zanskar mountains in the south and the Karakoram mountain range in the north.
The correct answer is Europe. Europe is the only continent without a desert.
The answer is Europe.
The driest place in India is Jaisalmer. Jaisalmer is a former medieval trading center and a princely state in the western Indian state of Rajasthan, in the heart of the Thar Desert.
With 36 states and UT, the largest state of India is Rajasthan with over 3.42 lakh square km area. Other states that rank well in terms of area are Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Uttar Pradesh.
Pakistan hosts five deserts which were historically forests. They include the Thar Desert in Sindh, the Cholistan Desert in Bahawalpur (Punjab), the Thal Desert in Bhakkar (Punjab), the Kharan Desert in Balochistan, and the Katpana Desert in Skardu (Gilgit-Baltistan).
Along with the gradual destruction of the Aravali ranges, the mighty Thar desert in western Rajasthan is expanding fast because of migration of people, changes in the rainfall pattern, spread of sand dunes and unscientific plantation drives.