PHYSIOGRAPHIC DIVISION OF INDIA
GREAT INDIAN DESERT
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Hot desert
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Cold desert
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None of them
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none of above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Thar desert is a hot desert. It is also called the Great Indian Desert. It is situated in the arid region of rolling sand hills on the Indian subcontinent. This region receives very low rainfall below 150 mm per year. It has arid climate with low vegetation cover.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -A hot desert is a part of the world that has high average temperatures and very low precipitation. These areas need to have less than 250mm of rainfall per year to be classified as a desert.
Detailed explanation-4: -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. It is the world’s 20th-largest desert, and the world’s 9th-largest hot subtropical desert.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Thar Desert is located in northwest India. It is one of the major hot deserts of the world with the highest population density .