Karamay
Prefecture-level city in Xinjiang, People's Republic of China / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see Karamay (disambiguation).
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.
Quick Facts 克拉玛依市 (Chinese)قاراماي شەھىرى (Uyghur)Karamai, Country ...
Karamay
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Coordinates (Karamay municipal government): 45°34′48″N 84°53′21″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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Simplified Chinese | 克拉玛依 | ||||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 克拉瑪依 | ||||||||||||||
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Uyghur | قاراماي | ||||||||||||||
Literal meaning | black oil | ||||||||||||||
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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]