Tarim River

The Tarim River, known in Sanskrit as the Śītā, is an endorheic river in , . It is the principal river of the , a desert region of between the and .
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  • 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 Tarim”
    “T’a-li-mu”
    “T’a-li-mu Ho”
    “T’a-li-mu River”
    “Tǎlǐmù hé”
    “Tarim”
    “Tarim He”
    “Tarim Ho”
    “Yarkend-Dar’ya”
  • Categories
    river
    body of water
  • Location
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Latitude
41.05088° or 41° 3′ 3″ north
Longitude
86.6375° or 86° 38′ 15″ east
Open location code
8MH83J2P+9X
Geo­Names ID
1529158
Wiki­data ID
Q237901

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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”
  • Cebuano: “Tarim He”
  • Chinese: “塔里木河”
  • Croatian: “Tarim”
  • Czech: “Tarim-che”
  • Czech: “Tarim”
  • Dutch: “Tarim (rivier)”
  • Dutch: “Tarim Darya”
  • 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: “Río Tarim”
  • 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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