Karamay
Karamai | |
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 The Karamay River running through Karamay District | |
.png) Location of Karamay City jurisdiction in Xinjiang | |
  Karamay Location of the city centre in Xinjiang  Karamay Karamay (Xinjiang)  Karamay Karamay (China) | |
| Coordinates (Karamay municipal government): 45°34′48″N 84°53′21″E / 45.5799°N 84.8892°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Region | Xinjiang |
| Municipal seat | Karamay District |
| Subdivisions | |
| 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 |
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 克拉玛依 | ||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 克拉瑪依 | ||||||||||||||
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| Uyghur name | |||||||||||||||
| Uyghur | قاراماي | ||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | black oil | ||||||||||||||
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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]
- ^ "克拉玛依市2019年国民经济和社会发展统计公报" (in Chinese). 25 April 2021. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
- ^ China aghast at ‘sacrifice’ of 288 pupils, The Sunday Times, May 6, 2007.