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The Great Indian Desert lies to the South-west of the fertile Northern Plain or the Gangetic Plain. It is also called the Thar Desert. The Aravali Hills divide Rajasthan into two parts. The Western part of Rajasthan is the Great Indian Desert. Its soil is composed of sand, hard rocks and sand dunes. In the given map you find that the Great Indian Desert extends from the Aravalis in the East to Pakistan in the West.
The Answer: The largest (nonpolar) desert in the world is the Sahara, in north Africa, which spans an area measured at roughly 3.5 million square miles.The United States' contiguous 48 states could easily fit in the desert.t is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea on the north and it spreads all the way down to central Africa, some 1,200 miles south. For a list of the rest of the world's largest desert regions, check out our table of Principal Deserts of the World.