Tarim

Proper noun

Tarim

1. A river in the Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
   • 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 2024
   • 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, Business