Rajasthan the largest state of Western India is frequently mistaken as a desert as it encloses the Great Indian Thar Desert. Though a larger tract of the state is parched and dry, Rajasthan has varying topographic features and cannot be solely identified as a desert. The wide-ranging topography includes rocky terrain, rolling sand dunes, wetlands, barren tracts or land filled with thorny scrubs, river-drained plains, plateaus, ravines and wooded regions.

In a more comprehensive way the topography of Rajasthan can be divided in the following ways- · Aravali or the Hilly regions · The Thar and the other arid regions · The Plateaus including Vindhaya and the Malwa · The Fertile plains including the Mewar · The Forest Regions · The Waterbodies including Rivers and Salt Lakes