Imej satelit NASA Gurun Thar, dengan sempadan India – Pakistan menindih.
Gurun Thar (bahasa Rajasthani: थार मरुधर, bahasa Hindi: थार मरुस्थल, bahasa Sindhi: ٿر ريگستان, bahasa Urdu: صحراےَ تھر), juga dikenali sebagai Gurun India Besar atau Marusthali (Tanah kematian), ialah sebuah kawasan gersang yang besar di bahagian barat laut subbenua India yang membentuk sempadan semula jadi antara India dan Pakistan. Ia merupakan gurun ke-17 terbesar di dunia, dan benua subtropika ke-9 terbesar dunia.[1]
About 85% of the Thar Desert is in India, and the remaining part in Pakistan.[2] Di India, ia meliputi kira-kira 320,000 km2 (120,000 bt2), di mana 60% di Rajasthan dan meluas ke Gujarat, Punjab, dan Haryana.[3]
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^Sharma, K. K. and S. P. Mehra (2009). The Thar of Rajasthan (India): Ecology and Conservation of a Desert Ecosystem. Chapter 1 in: Sivaperuman, C., Baqri, Q. H., Ramaswamy, G., & Naseema, M. (eds.) Faunal ecology and conservation of the Great Indian Desert. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg.
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