Thar Desert, arid region of rolling sand hills on the Indian subcontinent. It is located partly in Rajasthan state, northwestern India, and partly in Punjab and Sindh (Sind) provinces, eastern Pakistan. It covers some 77,000 square miles (200,000 square
Figure 2. (a) Map of Pakistan, Central, Eastern, Northern, and Western routes of CPEC; (b) the Study area of coal mining project under assessment (block II). The area has nine villages and a population of around 9600 people (primary data). The region of Tharparkar is home to the...