Meanings
- A river in the Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
The Tarim River, he notes, used to drain into a large inland lake, which dried up completely in the 1960s.
2013 April 30, Steven Mufson, “China struggles to tap its shale gas”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Oct 2016, Business2 more examples
Similarly, Lop Nur Lake, in southeastern Xinjiang, which once supported a thriving indigenous culture, dried up for good in the early 1970s. Its lifeline, the Tarim River, which used to skirt the northern fringe of the Taklamakan Desert, has been sucked dry by upstream agriculture.
2002 July 19, “Traffic flows where river once did”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Oct 2024For several decades, the lower Tarim river, in proximity of the new transport corridors, had been in the eye of a major ecological disaster. The upper part of the 2,030 km river was heavily dammed for agricultural purposes.
2019 June 29, Atul Aneja, “The inescapable revival of the Tarim basin”, in The Hindu, archived from the original on 07 Nov 2020
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 塔里木河
- 塔里木河 (Tǎlǐmù Hé)river
Korean 타림강
- 타림강 (Tarim-gang)river
Polish Tarym
- Tarymriver
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Cite this entry
Tarim. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tarim
“Tarim.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tarim. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Tarim,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tarim.
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