Tarim River
The Tarim River, known in Sanskrit as the Śītā, is an endorheic river in Xinjiang, China. It is the principal river of the Tarim Basin, a desert region of Central Asia between the Tian Shan and Kunlun Mountains.Photo: NASA, Public domain.
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in the People’s Republic of China
- Also known as: “Echardes”, “Echardes River”, “Oechardes”, “Oechardes River”, “Oikhardes”, “Oikhardes River”, “River Echardes”, “River Oechardes”, “River Oikhardes”, “River T’a-li-mu”, “River Ta-li-mu”, “River Talimu”, “River Tarim”, “T’a-li-mu”, “T’a-li-mu Ho”, “T’a-li-mu River”, “Ta-li-mu”, “Ta-li-mu Ho”, “Ta-li-mu River”, “Talimu”, “Talimu He”, “Tǎlǐmù hé”, “Talimu River”, “Tarim”, “Tarim He”, “Tarim Ho”, and “Yarkend-Dar’ya”
Tarim River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Xinjiang, Northwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Tarim River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Tarimrivier”
- Albanian: “Lumi Talimu”
- Arabic: “نهر تاريم”
- Armenian: “Թարիմ”
- Asturian: “Ríu Tarim”
- Basque: “Tarim ibaia”
- Basque: “Tarim”
- Belarusian: “Тарым”
- Bengali: “তারিম নদী”
- Breton: “Tarim (stêr)”
- Breton: “Tarim”
- Bulgarian: “Тарим”
- Bulgarian: “Таримдаря”
- Catalan: “riu Tarim”
- Catalan: “Riu Tarim”
- Cebuano: “Tarim He”
- Chinese: “塔里木河”
- Croatian: “Tarim”
- Czech: “Tarim-che”
- Czech: “Tarim”
- Dutch: “Tarim (rivier)”
- Dutch: “Tarim Darya”
- Dutch: “Tarim Rivier”
- Dutch: “Tarim”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر تاريم”
- Esperanto: “Rivero Tarim”
- Finnish: “Tarim”
- French: “Tarim”
- Georgian: “ტარიმი”
- German: “Tarim He”
- German: “Tarim-Fluss”
- German: “Tarim”
- Hindi: “तारिम नदी”
- Hungarian: “Tarim”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Tarim”
- Irish: “Abhainn Tarim”
- Italian: “Tarim He”
- Italian: “Tarim”
- Japanese: “タリム川”
- Japanese: “タリム河”
- Japanese: “塔里木川”
- Japanese: “塔里木河”
- Korean: “타리무 강”
- Korean: “타림강”
- Latin: “Flumen Oechardes”
- Latin: “Flumen Tarim”
- Latin: “Oechardes Flumen”
- Latin: “Oechardes”
- Latin: “Tarim Flumen”
- Latin: “Tarim”
- Latvian: “Tarima”
- Lithuanian: “Tarimas”
- Mingrelian: “ტარიმი”
- Northern Frisian: “Tarim”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tarim”
- Norwegian: “Tarim”
- Persian: “رود تاریم”
- Polish: “Talimu-ho”
- Polish: “Tarym”
- Portuguese: “Rio Tarim”
- Portuguese: “Tarim”
- Romanian: “Tarim”
- Russian: “Тарим”
- Serbian: “Тарим”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tarim”
- Slovak: “Tarim”
- Spanish: “Rio Tarim”
- Spanish: “Río Tarim”
- Spanish: “Rio Tarin”
- Spanish: “Rio Tarín”
- Spanish: “Río Tarín”
- Spanish: “Tarim”
- Swedish: “Tarim”
- Swedish: “Tarimfloden”
- Tamil: “தாரீம் ஆறு”
- Turkish: “Tarım Nehri”
- Turkmen: “Tarim”
- Uighur: “تارىم دەرياسى”
- Ukrainian: “Тарим”
- Urdu: “دریائے تاریم”
- Uzbek: “Tarim”
- Venetian: “Fiume Tarim”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Tarim”
- Welsh: “Afon Tarim”
- Western Armenian: “Թարին”
- Western Panjabi: “تارم دریا”
- Wu Chinese: “塔里木河”
- Yue Chinese: “塔里木河”
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