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The Thar Desert marks the edge of the monsoon
The Aravalli hills and a weakening monsoon leave north-west India and Sindh dry The desert covers about 200,000 square kilometres across India and Pakistan. Much of it is stable sand held in place by scrub rather than open dunes, and it carries a surprisingly large rural population. A canal drawn from the rivers of Punjab has turned parts of it into farmland. It sits in Mondo's world geography collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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The Thar Desert marks the edge of the monsoon: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- The Aravalli hills and a weakening monsoon leave north-west India and Sindh dry. The figure is taken from Met Office, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a world geography fact?
- Yes. It sits on the World Geography shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
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