In October, 2020 an international group of researchers found a lost river that ran through the central Thar Desert ; 1,72,000 years ago.

The collector and district magistrate (DM) of Bikaner is Smt.

[6] According to the 2011 census Bikaner district has a population of 2,363,937, roughly equal to the nation of Latvia or the US state of New Mexico.

The district has a population density of 78 inhabitants per square kilometre (200/sq mi).

Bikaner has a sex ratio of 903 females for every 1,000 males, and a literacy rate of 65.92%.