Golmud River
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| Golmud River 格尔木河 | |
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  The mouth of the Golmud at Dabusun Lake | |
| Native name | ᠭᠤᠤᠯᠮᠤᠳ (Mongolian) |
| Location | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Qinghai |
| Prefecture | Haixi |
| County | Golmud |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Mouth | Dabusun Lake |
• coordinates | 36°59′33″N 95°05′49″E / 36.992510°N 95.097056°E |
| Basin size | 18,648 km2 (7,200 sq mi) |
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| Traditional Chinese | 格爾木河 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 格尔木河 | ||||||||
| Postal | Naichi Gol | ||||||||
| Literal meaning | Rivers (in Mongolian) | ||||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||||
| Tibetan | ན་གོར་མོ། | ||||||||
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| Mongolian Cyrillic | ᠭᠤᠤᠯᠮᠤᠳ | ||||||||
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The Golmud or Ge'ermu River is a river in Golmud County, Haixi Prefecture, Qinghai Province, China. It flows north from the Kunlun Mountains to Dabusun and (occasionally) West Dabusun Lakes in the central Qarhan Playa in the southeastern Qaidam Basin. The county seat Golmud lies along it.
Golmud is a romanization of a Mongolian word meaning "rivers". Ge'ermu is the pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of the same name's transcription into Chinese characters; it is sometimes misspelled Geermu. Ko-erh-mu was the same name romanized using the Wade–Giles system. The Wylie romanization of the Tibetan form of the name is Nagormo.
It was formerly known as the Naichi Gol, from a town near its headwaters.[1]
