Golmud River
| Golmud River 格尔木河 | |
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| 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 | 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.