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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...
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  • travels through Munabao, a remote Rajasthani village situated in the Thar desert near the Pakistan border, that has been rocked recently by violent killings...
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    They include the Thar Desert in Sindh, the Cholistan Desert in Bahawalpur (Punjab), the Thal Desert in Bhakkar (Punjab), the Kharan Desert in Balochistan...
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    The Thar Desert of Sindh is a desert situated in Sindh, the southeastern region of Pakistan. This desert, forming a part of the expansive Thar Desert, spans...
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  • largest national parks, covering an area of 3,162 km2 (1,221 sq mi) in the Thar Desert. Sand dunes form around 44% of the park. The major landform consists...
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    lies in the Karakoram and Western Himalayan ranges, Punjab Plains, the Thar Desert and the Rann of Kutch salt marshes. In the far northeast, the Chin Hills...
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    Willys Jeep based off-roading oriented vehicles. Named after the Thar Desert, Thar was first introduced in 2010 as a modernized version of the Mahindra...
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    where it comprises most of the wide and inhospitable Thar Desert (also known as the Great Indian Desert) and shares a border with the Pakistani provinces...
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    Tharparkar (redirect from Thar and Parkar)
    from a portmanteau of the words Thar (referring to the Thar Desert), and parkar (meaning "to cross over"). The Thar region was historically fertile,...
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    World". Archived from the original on 2007-08-17. Retrieved 2021-05-14. "Thar Desert | Map, Climate, Vegetation, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. 24 May...
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    Himalayan mountain range in the north to the Indo-Gangetic plains, the Thar Desert, the Central Highlands and the northwestern part of the Deccan plateau...
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  • The Thar coalfield is located in Thar Desert, Tharparkar District of Sindh province in Pakistan. The deposits—16th-largest coal reserves in the world,...
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  • Province of Sindh. The name of the train is derived from the Thar Desert a sub-continental desert, which lies in the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent...
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    Jaisalmer (redirect from Desert Festival)
    sculptured yellow sandstone. The town lies in the heart of the Thar Desert (the Great Indian Desert) and has a population, including the residents of the fort...
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  • Look up thar or Thar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Thar may refer to: Thar Desert, or the Great Indian Desert and Marusthal, large desert in northwestern...
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    8925°E / 29.4875; 74.8925, and as Hakra downstream of the barrage in the Thar Desert. In pre-Harappan times the Ghaggar was a tributary of the Sutlej. It...
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    irrigate the land. Irrigation will make most of the desert suitable for farming. The Thar Desert spans a stammering 446 square kilometers and covers large...
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    Marwar (category Thar Desert)
    state in North Western India. It lies partly in the Thar Desert. The word 'maru' is Sanskrit for desert. The word "wad" literally means fence in Rajasthani...
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    Barmer district (category Thar Desert)
    located in the western part of Rajasthan state forming a part of the Thar Desert. Barmer is the third largest district by area in Rajasthan and fifth...
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    Beas rivers in Punjab state, and ends in irrigation facilities in the Thar Desert in the northwest of Rajasthan state. Previously known as the Rajasthan...
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    Kutch (or Rann of Kutch seasonal salt marsh) is a salt marsh in the Thar Desert in the Kutch District of Gujarat, India. It is about 7500 km2 (2900 sq...
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    The Luni is the largest river in the Thar Desert in Northwest India. It originates in the Pushkar valley of the Aravalli Range, near Ajmer, passes through...
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    is the larger portion of the Rann. It extends east and west, with the Thar Desert to the north and the low hills of Kutch to the south. The Indus River...
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    such as the Arabian Desert, or the Syrian Desert; deserts of South Asia such as Dasht-e Lut and Dasht-e Kavir of Iran or the Thar Desert of India and Pakistan;...
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    The Boha geoglyphs or Great Indian Desert geoglyph are a group of large geoglyphs made in the soil in the Thar Desert of Rajasthan, India. Several sites...
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    Thari people (redirect from Thar people)
    (ٿري, ڍاٽي) are an Indo-Aryan ethno-linguistic group who reside in the Thar Desert, which is divided between Pakistan and India. They speak Thari, also...
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    the Kalahari Desert in Southern Africa, Sonoran Desert in the United States and Mexico, Mojave Desert in the United States, Thar Desert in India and Pakistan...
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  • Rajkumari Ratnavati Girls School is a girl's school in the rural Thar Desert of Jaisalmer in the Indian state of Rajasthan. The school is unique in that...
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  • Churu, Rajasthan (category Thar Desert)
    Churu is a city in the desert region of Rajasthan state of India. It is known as the gateway to the Thar Desert of Rajasthan. It is the administrative...
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  • regions of Deccan Plateau are also densely populated regions of India. The Thar Desert in western Rajasthan is one of the most densely populated deserts in...
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