Karamay or Kelamayi (also: Karamai) (Uyghur: قاراماي, Qaramay, K̡aramay; Chinese: 克拉瑪依; pinyin: Kèlāmǎyī, 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, the 12/8/94 incident, when 324 people, 288 of them school children, lost ...
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Karamay or Kelamayi (also: Karamai) (Uyghur: قاراماي, Qaramay, K̡aramay; Chinese: 克拉瑪依; pinyin: Kèlāmǎyī, 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, the 12/8/94 incident, when 324 people, 288 of them school children, lost their lives in a cinema fire on 8 December 1994. Population (2002): 290,000.
Karamay is located in the Dzungarian basin.
Karamay has a dry and hot summer climate. The annual range can be from -25 to 40 °C.
Karamay has 4 districts.
The territory of the "Prefecture-level City of Karamay" is not contiguous: Maytagh District, located south of the Lanxin Railway, forms an exclave, as it is separated by Kuytun City from the other three districts in the north. City of Karamay taken together with the City of Kuytun would form an enclave surrounded on...
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