Karamay City
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Karamay 克拉玛依市 • قاراماي شەھىرى |
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| Prefecture-level city | |
.png) Location of Karamay City jurisdiction in Xinjiang |
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 Karamay
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| Coordinates: 45°36′N 84°53′E / 45.600°N 84.883°ECoordinates: 45°36′N 84°53′E / 45.600°N 84.883°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Region | Xinjiang |
| Municipal seat | Karamay District |
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| Area | |
| • Total | 7,734 km2 (2,986 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 354 m (1,161 ft) |
| Population (2015) | |
| • Total | 401,468 |
| • Density | 52/km2 (130/sq mi) |
| • Major Nationalities | Han - 75% |
| Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
| Postal code | 834000 |
| Area code(s) | 0990 |
| License Plate Prefix | 新J |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 克拉玛依 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 克拉瑪依 | ||||||||||
| Hanyu Pinyin | Kèlāmǎyī | ||||||||||
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| Uyghur name | |||||||||||
| Uyghur |
قاراماي
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Kèlāmǎyī |
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| Latin Yëziqi | Qaramay |
| Yengi Yeziⱪ | K̡aramay |
| SASM/GNC | K̂aramay |
| Siril Yëziqi | Қарамай |
Karamay or Kelamayi is a prefecture-level city in the north of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. 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 12-08 incident, when 324 people, including 288 school children, lost their lives in a cinema fire on 8 December 1994.
On December 8, 1994, a fire broke out in Friendship Theatre (友谊馆), Karamay, which caused the death of 325 people including 288 school children, according to official figures. Many teachers were killed while trying to protect and evacuate their students from the building, which lacked adequate safety features. A show was being organized at that moment for a number of local government officials, who managed to escape ahead of the others on spotting the fire, and were afterwards charged with neglecting their duty and received prison sentences of up to 5 years.
Karamay City has jurisdiction over 4 districts (区 qu). They are not contiguous as Dushanzi District is located south of the Lanxin Railway and forms an exclave, separated from the rest of Karamay City by Kuytun City. Together with Kuytun City, Karamay City forms an enclave surrounded on all sides by Tacheng Prefecture.
Karamay is located in the northwest of the Dzungarian basin, with an average elevation of 400 metres (1,300 ft). Its administrative area ranges in latitude from 44° 07' to 46° 08' N and in longitude from 80° 44' to 86° 01' E, and has a maximal 240 km (150 mi) north-south extent and reaches 110 km (68 mi) in east-west width. It borders Hoboksar Mongol Autonomous County to the northeast, Shawan County to the southeast, Toli County and Wusu to the west, and Kuytun to the south.
The naturally available water supply in the Karamay area is rather limited: it mostly consists of two fairly small rivers (the Baiyang River and the Da'erbute River (达尔不特河) flowing into the Dzungarian Basin from the mountains of its northwestern rim. In addition, the city receives water from the Irtysh River, over the Irtysh–Karamay Canal, which was officially opened in 2008.
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