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Tarim

Tarim is in in . It is south of Tian Mountain running through the middle of Xinjiang Province. It consists of Kizilsu Kirghiz Autonomous Prefecture, Kashgar Prefecture, Tumxuk city, Aksu Prefecture, Aral City, Khotan Prefecture and Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture.
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Top destinations include Kashgar and Khotan.

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is in the extreme west of and the southwest extreme of . The city has been an important trading centre since the days of the Silk Road, and still is today; it is said to have the largest bazaar in Asia.

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, is a town on the southern Branch of the Silk Road in Province in . was once center of a Buddhist empire. The old capital, Yoktan, is about 10 km west of the current city.

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is a city in Province in . The name is sometimes transliterated as Yarkant or Yarkhand. It is most useful as a stop to break up the long bus ride from to Hotan. The tomb complex here is worth checking out if you're in town.

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, also known as Kurla or Kuerle, is the second largest city by population in , China. It is a county-level city and the seat of , the largest prefecture of China.

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is a town in the far west of Province in . Its population is mostly ethnically Tajik. The town is near the Pakistani and Tajik borders.

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The Karakul or Karakuli, is a located 196 km southwest of , of . It is located in , Kizilsu Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture on the Karakoram Highway, before reaching , the on the China – Pakistan border and in .

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Kucha was an ancient Buddhist kingdom located on the branch of the Silk Road that ran along the northern edge of what is now the Taklamakan Desert in the Tarim Basin and south of the .

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Qiemo County as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Qarqan County, is a county under the administration of the Bayin'gholin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, bordering the to the south.

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Kargilik or Yecheng is a town in , China. It is to the southeast of , at a distance of 249 km by road and is north of Mazar by 249 km. It is the seat of Kargilik County.

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Ruoqiang Town Chinese: 若羌; pinyin: Ruòqiāng; Uyghur: Чакилик: Qakilik or is a town in Ruoqiang County, Bayin'gholin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture in southeastern , People's Republic of China.

Tarim

Latitude of center
39.4667° or 39° 28′ 0″ north
Longitude of center
76.05° or 76° 3′ east
Wiki­data ID
Q216622
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Tarim” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “حوض تاريم”
  • Armenian: “Թարիմի հարթավայր”
  • Armenian: “Կաշգարյան հարթավայր”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tarım hövzəsi”
  • Basque: “Tarim arroa”
  • Belarusian: “Тарымская ўпадзіна”
  • Bengali: “তারিম অববাহিকা”
  • Bulgarian: “Таримска равнина”
  • Bulgarian: “Таримски басейн”
  • Catalan: “Conca de Tarim”
  • Catalan: “conca del Tarim”
  • Catalan: “Conca del Tarim”
  • Catalan: “Depressió del Tarim”
  • Cebuano: “Tarim Pendi”
  • Chinese: “Tarim Phûn-tē”
  • Chinese: “南疆”
  • Chinese: “塔里木盆地”
  • Croatian: “Tarimska zavala”
  • Czech: “Tarimská pánev”
  • Czech: “Tarimská propadlina”
  • Danish: “Tarimbækkenet”
  • Dutch: “Tarim bekken”
  • Dutch: “Tarim-bekken”
  • Dutch: “Tarimbekken”
  • Esperanto: “Baseno Tarim”
  • Esperanto: “Tarim-baseno”
  • Finnish: “Tarimin allas”
  • French: “bassin du Tarim”
  • French: “Bassin du Tarim”
  • Georgian: “ტარიმის ღრმული”
  • German: “Tarim-Becken”
  • German: “Tarimbecken”
  • Hebrew: “אגן טארים”
  • Hindi: “तरीम बेसिन”
  • Hindi: “तारिम घाटी”
  • Hindi: “तारिम द्रोणी”
  • Hindi: “तारिम बेसिन”
  • Hindi: “तारीम बेसिन”
  • Hungarian: “Tarim-medence”
  • Indonesian: “Cekungan Tarim”
  • Italian: “Bacino del Tarim”
  • Japanese: “タリム盆地”
  • Japanese: “塔里木盆地”
  • Korean: “타리무 분지”
  • Korean: “타림 분지”
  • Korean: “타림분지”
  • Latvian: “Tarimas baseins”
  • Latvian: “Tarimas ieplaka”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Basin de Tarim”
  • Lithuanian: “Tarimo baseinas”
  • Lithuanian: “Tarimo dubuma”
  • Lithuanian: “Tarimo įduba”
  • Lithuanian: “Tarimo lyguma”
  • Macedonian: “Таримска Котлина”
  • Malay: “Lembangan Tarim”
  • Malay: “Tarim Basin”
  • Malayalam: “Tarim Basin”
  • Malayalam: “ടാറിം തടം”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tarim Phûn-tē”
  • Newari: “तारिम स्वनिगः”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tarim Baseng”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tarimbassenget”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tarimbekkenet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tarimbekkenet”
  • Norwegian: “Tarimbekkenet”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bacin de Tarim”
  • Panjabi: “ਤਾਰਿਮ ਬੇਸਿਨ”
  • Persian: “حوضه تاریم”
  • Persian: “حوضهٔ تاریم”
  • Polish: “Kaszgaria”
  • Polish: “Kotlina Kaszgarska”
  • Polish: “Kotlina Tarymska”
  • Portuguese: “Bacia do Tarim”
  • Romanian: “Bazinul Tarim”
  • Russian: “Кашгарская равнина”
  • Russian: “Таримская впадина”
  • Russian: “Таримская котловина”
  • Russian: “Таримская равнина”
  • Russian: “Таримский бассейн”
  • Serbian: “Таримска котлина”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tarimska zavala”
  • Slovak: “Tarimská panva”
  • Slovenian: “Tarimska kotlina”
  • Spanish: “Cuenca de Tarim”
  • Spanish: “cuenca del Tarim”
  • Spanish: “Cuenca del Tarim”
  • Swedish: “Tarim Pendi”
  • Swedish: “Tarimbäckenet”
  • Tamil: “தாரிம் வடிநிலம்”
  • Turkish: “Tarım Havzası”
  • Uighur: “Tarim oymanliqi”
  • Uighur: “تارىم ئويمانلىقى”
  • Ukrainian: “Кашгарська рівнина”
  • Ukrainian: “Таримська западина”
  • Ukrainian: “Таримська улоговина”
  • Ukrainian: “Таримський басейн”
  • Ukrainian: “Тарімський басейн”
  • Urdu: “تاریم طاس”
  • Uzbek: “Qashqar tekisligi”
  • Vietnamese: “Bồn địa Tarim”
  • Vietnamese: “Lòng chảo Tarim”
  • Western Panjabi: “تارم طاس”
  • Wu Chinese: “塔里木盆地”
  • Yue Chinese: “塔里木盆地”

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