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    The Thar Desert is located in northwestern India and southeastern Pakistan, covering an area of over 200,000 square kilometers. It is the 7th largest desert in the world and 3rd largest in Asia. The desert spans the Indian states of Rajasthan, Haryana, and Punjab, and extends into northern Gujarat, as well as the Pakistani provinces of Sindh and Punjab. Adjoining the Thar Desert is the Cholistan Desert, which covers an area of 16,000 square kilometers in Punjab, Pakistan near Bahawalpur. The Cholistan Desert connects to the Thar Desert and stretches into both Sindh, Pakistan and parts of India. People living in the Chol

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    The Thar Desert is located in northwestern India and southeastern Pakistan, covering an area of over 200,000 square kilometers. It is the 7th largest desert in the world and 3rd largest in Asia. The desert spans the Indian states of Rajasthan, Haryana, and Punjab, and extends into northern Gujarat, as well as the Pakistani provinces of Sindh and Punjab. Adjoining the Thar Desert is the Cholistan Desert, which covers an area of 16,000 square kilometers in Punjab, Pakistan near Bahawalpur. The Cholistan Desert connects to the Thar Desert and stretches into both Sindh, Pakistan and parts of India. People living in the Chol

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    The Thar Desert is located in northwestern India and southeastern Pakistan, covering an area of over 200,000 square kilometers. It is the 7th largest desert in the world and 3rd largest in Asia. The desert spans the Indian states of Rajasthan, Haryana, and Punjab, and extends into northern Gujarat, as well as the Pakistani provinces of Sindh and Punjab. Adjoining the Thar Desert is the Cholistan Desert, which covers an area of 16,000 square kilometers in Punjab, Pakistan near Bahawalpur. The Cholistan Desert connects to the Thar Desert and stretches into both Sindh, Pakistan and parts of India. People living in the Chol

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    The Thar Desert is located in northwestern India and southeastern Pakistan, covering an area of over 200,000 square kilometers. It is the 7th largest desert in the world and 3rd largest in Asia. The desert spans the Indian states of Rajasthan, Haryana, and Punjab, and extends into northern Gujarat, as well as the Pakistani provinces of Sindh and Punjab. Adjoining the Thar Desert is the Cholistan Desert, which covers an area of 16,000 square kilometers in Punjab, Pakistan near Bahawalpur. The Cholistan Desert connects to the Thar Desert and stretches into both Sindh, Pakistan and parts of India. People living in the Chol

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    Thar Desert

    The Thar Desert (Hindi: ), also known as the Great Indian Desert, is a large, arid region in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent. With an area of more than 200,000 km2.,[1] (77,000 sq. mi.) it is world's 7th largest desert and also Asia's 3rd largest desert. The Thar desert along with the Sahara desert of Africa, Arabian peninsula desert, and Cholistan desert in Pakistan are part of the same desert formation.[2] It lies mostly in the Indian state of Rajasthan, and extends into the southern portion of Haryana and Punjab states and into northern Gujarat state. In Pakistan, the desert covers eastern Sindh province and the southeastern portion of Pakistan's Punjab province. The Cholistan Desert adjoins the Thar desert spreading into Pakistani Punjab province.

    Cholistan Desert
    Cholistan Desert (Urdu: , also locally known as Rohi) sprawls thirty kilometers from Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan and covers an area of 16,000 km. It adjoins the Thar Desert extending over to Sindh and into India. The word Cholistan is derived from the Turkish word Chol, which means Desert. Cholistan thus means Land of the Desert. The people of Cholistan lead a seminomadic life, moving from one place to another in search of water and fodder for their animals. The dry bed of the Hakra River runs through the area, along which many settlements of the Indus Valley Civilisation have been found. The Desert also has an Annual Jeep Rally, known as Annual Cholistan Jeep Rally.

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