Karamay

Karamay 克拉玛依市 (Chinese) قاراماي شەھىرى (Uyghur) Karamai
Prefecture-level city
The Karamay River running through Karamay District
Location of Karamay City jurisdiction in Xinjiang
Karamay Location of the city centre in Xinjiang Show map of Dzungaria Karamay Karamay (Xinjiang) Show map of Xinjiang Karamay Karamay (China) Show map of China
Coordinates (Karamay municipal government): 45°34′48″N 84°53′21″E / 45.5799°N 84.8892°E / 45.5799; 84.8892
Country	People's Republic of China
Region	Xinjiang
Municipal seat	Karamay District
Subdivisions	Districts Karamay Baijiantan Dushanzi Uroho
Area
• Total	7,734 km2 (2,986 sq mi)
Elevation	354 m (1,161 ft)
Population  (2020)
• Total	490,348
• Density	63/km2 (160/sq mi)
• Major Nationalities	Han - 74.8%
GDP[1]
• Total	CN¥ 97.3 billion US$ 14.1 billion
• Per capita	CN¥ 210,426 US$ 30,452
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code	834000
Area code	0990
ISO 3166 code	CN-XJ-02
License Plate Prefix	新J
Website	www.klmy.gov.cn/Pages/default.aspx

Karamay (also spelled Karamai) is a prefecture-level city in the north of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. It is surrounded on all sides by Tacheng Prefecture. The name of the city comes from the Uyghur language and means "black oil", referring to the oil fields near the city.

Karamay was the site of one of the worst disasters in modern Chinese history, the 1994 Karamay fire, when 324 people, including 288 school children, lost their lives in a cinema fire on 8 December 1994.^[2]