GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Thar Desert, also called Great Indian Desert, arid region of rolling sand hills on the Indian subcontinent. It is located partly in Rajasthan state, northwestern India, and partly in Punjab and Sindh (Sind) provinces, eastern Pakistan.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Rajasthan desert or the Thar Desert in western Rajasthan is the biggest desert in India. The Thar Desert or the Great Indian Desert encompasses about 70% of total landmass of Rajasthan and hence it is identified as the “Desert State of India".

Detailed explanation-3: -Western Rajasthan in the present age is well known for the Thar Desert. But this was not the case in the past. Indian researchers have discovered a set of rare wood boring trace fossils in the Barmer region, which reveal that this area was a tropical forest and even had a vast river network 55 million years ago.

Detailed explanation-4: -The correct answer is 60%. Rajasthan is India’s only state that has a real hot desert within its territory. Vast stretches of sand dunes of different kinds-longitudinal dunes, barchans, transverse dunes-are characterized by physiography. Almost 60% area of the THAR Desert in India falls in Rajasthan.