Kutch

American  

[kuhch] / kʌtʃ /

Or Cutch

noun

1. a former state in W India, now part of Gujarat state.

2. Rann of a salt marsh NE of this area. 9,000 sq. mi. (23,310 sq. km).

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Kutch British  

/ kʌtʃ /

noun

1. a former state of W India, on the Gulf of Kutch (an inlet of the Arabian Sea): part of Gujarat state since 1960

2. an extensive salt waste in W central India, and S Pakistan: consists of the Great Rann in the north and the Little Rann in the southeast; seasonal alternation between marsh and desert; some saltworks. In 1968 an international tribunal awarded about 10 per cent of the border area to Pakistan. Area: 23 000 sq km (9000 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

The discovery comes from a specimen described by Debajit Datta and Sunil Bajpai, who studied fossils recovered from the Panandhro Lignite Mine in Kutch, Gujarat State, India.

From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2026

Fragments of the snake’s backbone were discovered in 2005 by co-author Sunil Bajpai, based at the same institute, near Kutch, Gujarat, in western India.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 18, 2024

That was down from initial outages in more than 4,600 villages in Saurashtra and Kutch, where the cyclone made landfall on Thursday night.

From Reuters • Jun. 17, 2023

Six national disaster relief teams have been deployed in key concern areas in the Kutch region of Gujarat for relief work.

From BBC • Jun. 15, 2023

With the exception of the queen of Kutch Behar and a few in the Zenana mission, she was the first educated Hindoo woman that I had met.

From Reminiscences The Story of an Emigrant by Mattson, Hans