Thar Desert
Rajasthan is a state in the northwest of India. It is mainly arid and its western border is adjacent to Pakistan. The main attractions for travellers are the vast Thar Desert, one of the oldest mountain ranges in the world - the Aravalis - and the Rajput…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Sankara Subramanian, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Desert
- Description: large, arid region in India and Pakistan
- Also known as: “Great Indian Desert”, “India Desert”, “Indian Desert”, “Rajputana Desert”, and “Thur”
Thar Desert
- Categories: WWF ecoregion and landform
- Location: Rajasthan, Western India, India, South Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Thar Desert” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Shkretëtira Tar”
- Angika: “थार मरुस्थल”
- Arabic: “صحراء تهار”
- Arabic: “صحراء طهار”
- Armenian: “Թար անապատ”
- Assamese: “থৰ মৰুভূমি”
- Azerbaijani: “Tar səhrası”
- Azerbaijani: “Tar”
- Basque: “Thar basamortua”
- Basque: “Thar”
- Belarusian: “Тар”
- Bengali: “থর মরুভুমি”
- Bengali: “থর মরুভূমি”
- Bhojpuri: “थार के रेगिस्तान”
- Bulgarian: “Тар”
- Catalan: “Desert de Thar”
- Catalan: “Thar”
- Cebuano: “Thar Desert”
- Central Bikol: “Desyerto kan Thar”
- Central Kurdish: “بیابانی تار”
- Chinese: “塔尔沙漠”
- Chinese: “塔爾沙漠”
- Croatian: “Thar”
- Czech: “Thár”
- Czech: “Tharská poušť”
- Czech: “Thárská poušť”
- Danish: “Thar-ørkenen”
- Danish: “Tharørkenen”
- Dutch: “Tharwoestijn”
- Egyptian Arabic: “صحرا طهار”
- Esperanto: “Dezerto Tar”
- Esperanto: “Granda Hinda Dezerto”
- Esperanto: “Tar-Dezerto”
- Esperanto: “Tara dezerto”
- Estonian: “Thar”
- Estonian: “Thari kõrb”
- Finnish: “Rajasthanin autiomaa”
- Finnish: “Thar”
- Finnish: “Tharin autiomaa”
- Finnish: “Tharr”
- French: “Désert de Thar”
- French: “Desert du Thar”
- French: “désert du Thar”
- French: “Désert du Thar”
- Galician: “Deserto do Thar”
- Georgian: “თარი”
- Georgian: “თარის უდაბნო”
- Georgian: “ინდოეთის დიდი უდაბნო”
- German: “Thar-Wüste”
- German: “Thar”
- German: “Tharr”
- German: “Wüste Tharr”
- Greek: “Έρημος Ταρ”
- Greek: “Ταρ Έρημος”
- Hebrew: “המדבר ההודי הגדול”
- Hebrew: “טהאר”
- Hebrew: “מדבר תר”
- Hebrew: “ת’אר”
- Hindi: “थार मरुभूमि”
- Hindi: “थार मरुस्थल”
- Hindi: “थार रेगिस्तान”
- Hindi: “थार”
- Hungarian: “Thár-sivatag”
- Indonesian: “Gurun Thar”
- Italian: “deserto del Rajasthan”
- Italian: “deserto del Thar”
- Italian: “Deserto del Thar”
- Italian: “deserto di Thar”
- Japanese: “タール砂漠”
- Japanese: “大インド砂漠”
- Kannada: “ಥಾರ್ ಮರುಭೂಮಿ”
- Kannada: “ಥಾರ್”
- Kazakh: “Тар шөлі”
- Kazakh: “Тар”
- Kazakh: “Тһар шөлі”
- Kirghiz: “Тap”
- Kirghiz: “Тар”
- Korean: “타르 사막”
- Latvian: “Tara tuksnesis”
- Lithuanian: “Didžioji Indijos dykuma”
- Lithuanian: “Taro dykuma”
- Macedonian: “Тар”
- Magahi: “थार मरुस्थल”
- Maithili: “थार मरुभूमि”
- Malagasy: “Tanimatin’i Thar”
- Malagasy: “Tanimatin’ny Thar”
- Malay: “Gurun Thar”
- Malayalam: “Thar Desert”
- Malayalam: “താർ മരുഭൂമി”
- Malayalam: “ഥാർ മരുഭൂമി”
- Malayalam: “ഥാർ”
- Marathi: “थरचे वाळवंट”
- Marathi: “थारचे वाळवंट”
- Mazanderani: “تار”
- Minangkabau: “Gurun Thar”
- Mingrelian: “თარიშ ტიოზი”
- Nepali: “थार मरुभूमि”
- Northern Frisian: “Thar Wüüst”
- Northern Frisian: “Thar”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Thar-ørkenen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Thar”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tharørkenen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Thar-ørkenen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Thar”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tharørkenen”
- Norwegian: “Thar”
- Oriya: “ଥର ମରୁଭୂମି”
- Panjabi: “ਥਾਰ ਮਾਰੂਥਲ”
- Persian: “بیابان تار”
- Persian: “بیابان تهار”
- Polish: “Thar”
- Polish: “Wielka Pustynia Indyjska”
- Portuguese: “Deserto de Thar”
- Portuguese: “Deserto do Thar”
- Portuguese: “Deserto thar”
- Portuguese: “Thar”
- Romanian: “Thar”
- Romanian: “Tharr”
- Russian: “Пустыня Тар”
- Russian: “Тар”
- Russian: “Тхар”
- Scots: “Thar Desert”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Thar Desert”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Thar”
- Serbian: “Тар”
- Sindhi: “ٿر”
- Sindhi: “ريگستان ٿر”
- Slovak: “Thárska púšť”
- Slovenian: “puščava Thar”
- Slovenian: “Puščava Thar”
- Spanish: “Desierto de Thar”
- Spanish: “Desierto Thar”
- Spanish: “Thar”
- Swedish: “Thar Desert”
- Swedish: “Thar”
- Swedish: “Tharöknen”
- Tagalog: “Disyertong Thar”
- Tamil: “தார் பாலைவனம்”
- Tamil: “தார்ப் பாலைவனம்”
- Telugu: “థార్ ఎడారి”
- Thai: “Thar Desert”
- Thai: “ทะเลทรายเกรตอินเดียน”
- Thai: “ทะเลทรายธาร์”
- Turkish: “Tar çölü”
- Turkish: “Tar Çölü”
- Ukrainian: “Тар”
- Urdu: “صحرائے تھر”
- Vietnamese: “Hoang mạc Thar”
- Vietnamese: “Sa mạc Thar”
- Vietnamese: “Thar”
- Western Frisian: “Tharwoastyn”
- Western Panjabi: “صحرائے تھر”
- Wu Chinese: “塔尔沙漠”
- “थार के रेगिस्तान”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Kalān Ghāt and Hamira.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Thalyat Hamira and Jaisalmer railway station.
Rajasthan: Must-Visit Destinations
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