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Tarim River
The
Tarim River
(
Mandarin
Tǎlǐmù Hé, 塔里木河;
Uyghur
: تارىم دەرياسى), known in Sanskrit as the
Śītā
is the principal
river
of the
Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
in the
People's Republic of China
. It gives its name to the great
Tarim Basin
between the
Tian Shan
and
Kunlun Mountains
systems (the northern edge of the
Tibetan Plateau
) of
Central Asia
.
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