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Information about Deserts in Pakistan

The desert areas include the steppes of the Sindh Sagar Doab
(at its centre is the Thal, which has true desert conditions)
and Cholistan in the Bahakalpur region (Punjab), which is known as the Nara or Registan in the Khairpur region (Sindh) and as the Thar Desert in the Thar Parkar region of southeastern Sindh. All these areas are extensions of the Thar Desert of western India.

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Cholistan Desert

Cholistan Desert

The Cholistan desert sprawls thirty kilometers from Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan and covers an area of 16,000 km². It adjoins the Thar desert extending over to Sindh and into India. The word Cholistan is derived from Cholna which means "moving". The people of Cholistan lead a semi-nomadic 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.

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Indus Valley Desert

Indus Valley Desert

The Indus Valley Desert is a desert ecoregion of northern Pakistan. The Indus Valley desert covers an area of 19,500 square kilometers (7,500 square miles) in northwestern Punjab Province, lying between the Chenab and Indus rivers. The Indus Valley Desert is drier and less hospitable than the Northwestern thorn scrub forests that surround it.

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Thar Desert

Thar Desert

The Thar Desert also known as the Great Indian Desert, is a desert located in western India and southeastern Pakistan. 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 Sind province and the southeastern portion of Pakistan's Punjab province. In Pakistan's Punjab province it is known as the Cholistan Desert. Tharparker District of province Sindh Pakistan is also a part of Thar Desert. The Thar Desert is bounded on the northwest by the Sutlej River, on the east by the Aravalli Range, on the south by the salt marsh known as the Rann of Kutch (parts of which are sometimes included in the Thar), and on the west by the Indus River. Its boundary to the large thorny steppe to the north is ill-defined. Depending on what areas are included or excluded, the nominal size of the Thar can vary significantly.

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Thal Desert

Thal Desert

The Thal desert is situated in Punjab, Pakistan. It is vast area mainly between the Jhelum and Sindh rivers near the Pothohar Plateau. Its total length from north to south is 190 miles, and its maximum breadth is 70 miles while minimum breadth is 20 miles. This region is divided into the districts of Bhakkar, Khushab, Mianwali, Jhang, Layyah, and Muzaffargarh. Its part in Jhang is on the left bank bank of the river Jehlum. Geographically, it resembles the deserts of Cholistan and Thar.main town of Thal are Mari Shah Sakhira and Noor Pur Thal.

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Life in Deserts

Deserts
In
Pakistan There is life in Deserts

Information about Deserts in Pakistan:

The desert areas include the steppes of the Sindh Sagar Doab (at its centre is the Thal, which has true desert conditions) and Cholistan in the Bahakalpur region (Punjab), which is known as the Nara or Registan in the Khairpur region (Sindh) and as the Thar Desert in the Thar Parkar region of southeastern Sindh. All these areas are extensions of the Thar Desert of western India.

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The deserts in Pakistan and India fall in the category of the Monsoon Deserts. "Monsoon," derived from an Arabic word for "season," refers to a wind system with pronounced seasonal reversal. Monsoons develop in response to temperature variations between continents and oceans. The southeast trade winds of the Indian Ocean, for example, provide heavy summer rains in India as they move onshore. As the monsoon crosses India, it loses moisture on the eastern slopes of the Aravalli Range. The Rajasthan Desert of India and the Thar Desert of Pakistan are parts of a monsoon desert region west of the range.

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