Karamay

Karamay is a city in Province in . It is famous as an oil base for drilling in the surrounding desert. The oil industry contributes to the city's wealth which is evident in the clean and spacious streets.
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  • Type: City with 406,000 residents
  • Description: Prefecture-level city in Xinjiang, People’s Republic of China
  • Also known as: “Hei-yu-shan”, “K’o-la-ma-i”, “K’o-la-ma-i Shih”, “K’o-la-ma-i-shih”, “K’o-na-ma-i”, “Kalama Shi”, “Karamai”, “Karamay Shi”, “Kche-la-ma-i”, “Kelamayi”, “Kelamayi Shi”, “Khắc Lạp Mã Y”, “Kramaj”, “la montaña de oro negro”, and “克拉玛依市 قاراماي”

Karamay

Latitude
45.5778° or 45° 34′ 40″ north
Longitude
84.8867° or 84° 53′ 12″ east
Population
406,000
Elevation
366 metres (1,201 feet)
IATA airport code
KRY
UN/LOCODE
CN KRY
Open location code
8MQ6HVHP+4M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5138913241
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1529401
Wiki­data ID
Q658240
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Karamay” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “قاراماي”
  • Arabic: “كاراماي”
  • Armenian: “Կարամայ”
  • Asturian: “Karamay”
  • Bashkir: “Карамай”
  • Basque: “Karamay”
  • Belarusian: “Карамай”
  • Bengali: “কারামে”
  • Catalan: “Karamay”
  • Cebuano: “Karamay”
  • Chinese: “克拉玛依”
  • Chinese: “克拉玛依市”
  • Chinese: “克拉瑪依市”
  • Czech: “Karamaj”
  • Danish: “Karamay”
  • Dutch: “Karamay”
  • Esperanto: “Karamaj”
  • Esperanto: “Karamay”
  • Estonian: “Karamay”
  • Finnish: “Karamay”
  • French: “Karamay”
  • Gan Chinese: “克拉玛依市”
  • German: “Karamay”
  • Greek: “Καραμάι”
  • Greek: “Καραμέι”
  • Gujarati: “કરમાય”
  • Hebrew: “קאראמאי”
  • Hindi: “करमय”
  • Hungarian: “Karamaj”
  • Indonesian: “Karamay”
  • Irish: “Karamay”
  • Italian: “Karamay”
  • Japanese: “カラマイ市”
  • Kannada: “ಕರಮೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Қарамай (ҚХР)”
  • Kazakh: “Қарамай”
  • Kikuyu: “Karamay”
  • Kirghiz: “Карамай”
  • Korean: “카라마이시”
  • Korean: “커라마이 시”
  • Korean: “커라마이시”
  • Latvian: “Karamaju”
  • Lithuanian: “Karamajus”
  • Malagasy: “Karamay”
  • Malay: “Karamay”
  • Marathi: “करमाय”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Karamay”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Karamay Chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Karamay-chhī”
  • Mongolian: “Карамай хот”
  • Mongolian: “Карамай”
  • Mongolian: “Хармай хот”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Karamay”
  • Norwegian: “Karamay”
  • Ossetian: “Карамай”
  • Persian: “قارامای”
  • Persian: “کارامای”
  • Polish: “Karamay”
  • Portuguese: “Karamay”
  • Russian: “Карамай”
  • Serbian: “Карамај”
  • Sinhala: “කැරමේ”
  • Spanish: “Karamay”
  • Swedish: “Karamay”
  • Tamil: “கரமாய்”
  • Tatar: “Карамай”
  • Telugu: “క్యారమయ్”
  • Thai: “คาราเมย์”
  • Thai: “คาราไม”
  • Turkish: “Karamay”
  • Uighur: “قاراماي شەھرى”
  • Uighur: “قاراماي شەھىرى”
  • Ukrainian: “Карамай”
  • Urdu: “قارامائی”
  • Urdu: “کارامای”
  • Uzbek: “Qoramoy”
  • Venetian: “Karamay”
  • Vietnamese: “Karamay”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kelamayi”
  • Welsh: “Karamay”
  • Wu Chinese: “克拉玛依市”
  • Yue Chinese: “克拉瑪依”

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