The Luni River is the only river in the desert. The sand is highly mobile due to the strong winds that rise each year before the onset of the monsoon.
Much of the desert area is covered by huge, shifting sand dunes that receive sediments from the alluvial plains and the coast. The desert stretches to Punjab and Haryana in the north, to the Great Rann of Kutch along the coast, and to the alluvial plains of the Indus River in the west and northwest. The northeastern part of the Thar Desert lies between the Aravalli Hills. The portion in Pakistan extends into the provinces of Sindh and Punjab (the portion in the latter province is referred to as the Cholistan Desert). More than 60% of the desert lies in the Indian state of Rajasthan the portion in India also extends into Gujarat, Punjab, and Haryana. The Thar Desert is about 4.56% of the total geographical area of India.
It is the world's 20th-largest desert, and the world's 9th-largest hot subtropical desert.Ībout 85% of the Thar Desert is in India, and about 15% is in Pakistan. 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 200,000 km 2 (77,000 sq mi) and forms a natural boundary between India and Pakistan. States of India and provinces of Pakistan Northwestern thorn scrub forests and Rann of Kutch seasonal salt marsh
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