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Thar Desert

[ tur, tahr ]

noun

  1. a desert in NW India and S Pakistan. About 77,000 sq. mi. (200,000 sq. km).


Thar Desert

/ tɑː /

noun

  1. a desert in NW India, mainly in NW Rajasthan state and extending into Pakistan. Area: over 260 000 sq km (100 000 sq miles) Also calledIndian DesertGreat Indian Desert
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Example Sentences

The country has a land area of more than a million square miles, with people in megacities, scattered throughout the Himalayas, in the Thar Desert, inside forests and along the Ganges.

The Thar Desert today is a scorching region in western India’s Rajasthan state.

Enrollment in the school was open to all families who live below the poverty line in the Thar Desert region.

The bad air settles over the Indo-Gangetic plain of northern India, trapped on either side by the Thar Desert and the Himalayas, forming a toxic stew.

Construction is prohibited in the protected areas around the Aravali and Shivalik mountain ranges, which act as natural barriers against sand and dust storms coming in from the nearby Thar Desert.

From Reuters

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