Karamay

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قاراماي شەھرى
Karamay Shehri
克拉玛依市
Kèlāmǎyī Shì

Administration Type	Prefecture-level city
City Seat	(}; }, Wade-Giles: K'o-la-ma-i) is a prefecture-level city in the north of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, in northwestern China. Karamay comes from the Uyghur language, and means "black oil". Karamay was the site of one of the worst disasters in modern Chinese history, when 324 people, 288 of them school children, lost their lives in a cinema fire. Population (2002): 290,000. Contents 1 Geography 2 Climate 3 Subdivisions 4 Demographics 5 Economy 6 External links Geography Karamay is located in the Dzungarian basin. Climate Karamay has a dry and hot summer climate. The annual range can be from -25 to 40 °C. Subdivisions Karamay has 4 districts. Karamay District (克拉玛依区: Kèlāmǎyī Qū) Baijiantan District (白碱滩区 : Báijiǎntān Qū) Dushanzi District (独山子区: Dúshānzǐ Qū) Urho District (乌尔霍区: Wūěrhuò Qū) Demographics 75% of Karamay's population are Han with minorities such as Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Mongols and Hui making up the rest. Economy In 1955, one of the largest oil fields in China was discovered there. Since then, the city has grown into an oil-producing and refining center. view of Karamay External links [Government website of Karamay] (in Simplified Chinese) Prefecture-level divisions of Xinjiang '''Prefecture-level cities: Karamay | Ürümqi '''Prefectures: Aksu | Hami | Hotan | Kashgar | Turpan | Altay1 | Qoqek1 '''Autonomous prefectures: Bayin'gholin | Börtala | Changji | Ili | Kizilsu '''Sub-prefecture-level cities: Alar | Shihezi | Tumushuke | Wujiaqu 1 Part of Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture List of Xinjiang County-level divisions   From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details. Search Titles 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ? E-mail this article to: Personal Message: