Place:Karamay, Sinkiang, People's Republic of China

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NameKaramay
Alt namesK'o-la-ma-isource: Times Atlas of World History (1993) p 347
Karamaisource: Wikipedia
TypeCity
Coordinates45.5°N 85.917°E
Located inSinkiang, People's Republic of China
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Karamay is a prefecture-level city in the north of the Xinjiang Uyghur 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 1994 Karamay fire, when 324 people, including 288 school children, lost their lives in a cinema fire on 8 December 1994.

Karamay is an exclave of Tacheng Prefecture.

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