INDIAN GEOGRAPHY

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. The Thar Desert covers some 77, 000 square miles (200, 000 square km) of territory.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Thar Desert (Hindi: ), 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 205, 000 km2 (79, 000 sq mi) in India and Pakistan.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -The habitat of two deserts in India: hot-dry desert of Jaisalmer (Rajasthan) and the cold-dry high altitude mountainous desert of Leh (Ladakh)

Detailed explanation-5: -The western part of India is mainly a desert region because it receives very less amount of rainfall. This is because by the time the monsoon winds reach this part of India they have already lost most of their moisture which results in an arid climate in this region.