"Great Indian Desert"

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"Thar Desert" or "Great Indian Desert", Borders of India and Pakistan starting from Rajasthan to Haryana, India. Your Travel Jockey will help you to discover such places in India which you have never imagined!!  The Thar Desert. The origin of the Thar desert is a controversial subject. Some consider it to be only 4000 to 10,000 years old.

  The Thar Desert or the Great Indian Desert, is in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent spread  more than 200,000 sq. km.. It lies mostly in Rajasthan and extends into the southern portion of Haryana and Punjab and into northern Gujarat. Some parts of the desert covers eastern Sind and south-east Punjab province of Pakistan. The Thar Desert is bounded on the northwest by the Sutlej River, on the east by the Aravalli hills Range , on the south by  the Rann of Kutch  and on the west by the Indus River. It is characterized by its massive rolling sand dunes, excessive heat (50 degrees centigrade in May and June, with sand temperatures rising to 70 degrees), dust storms and dust-raising winds, often blowing winds with velocities of 140-150 Km/hr.