History
The Chinese originally considered the Tarim to be the upper course of the Huanghe or Yellow River but, by the time of the Former Han Dynasty (125 BCE-23 CE), it was known that it drains into Lop Nur, a series of salt lakes. Its total length is 2,030 km (or 1,260 mi).
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