Karamay

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Karamay or Karamai (Uyghur: قاراماي; Uyghur (Latin): K̢aramay; 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. Population (1994): 212,600.

Geography

Karamay is located in the Dzungarian basin.

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.

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