Here are the some amazing facts about Thar Desert🤞🤞
- The Thar Desert, also known as the Great Indian Desert, is a large arid region in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent that covers an area of 200,000 km² and forms a natural boundary between India and Pakistan.
- It is the world's 17th largest desert, and the world's 9th largest subtropical desert.
- Covering about 60% of the Indian state of Rajasthan, the Thar Desert has become the biggest wool-producing area in India with almost 40-50% of India’s total wool production coming from this region.
- The desert presents an undulating surface, with high and low sand dunes separated by sandy plains and low barren hills, or bhakars, which rise abruptly from the surrounding plains.
- The desert vegetation is mostly herbaceous or stunted scrub; drought-resistant trees occasionally dot the landscape, especially in the east.
- The thinly populated grasslands support blackbucks, chikara (gazelles), and some feathered game, notably francolins (partridges) and quail. Among the migratory birds, sand grouse, ducks, and geese are common.
- The grasses form the main natural resources of the desert. They provide nutritive pasturage as well as medicines used locally by the inhabitants.