Karamay
Karamay is a city in Xinjiang Province in China. 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Rart, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Rart, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- 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”, “Kelamayi”, “Kelamayi Shi”, and “Kramaj”
Karamay
- Categories: prefecture-level city, big city, and locality
- Location: Dzungarian, Xinjiang, Northwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
45.5778° or 45° 34′ 40″ northLongitude
84.8867° or 84° 53′ 12″ eastPopulation
406,000Elevation
366 metres (1,201 feet)IATA airport code
KRYUnited Nations Location Code
CN KRYOpen location code
8MQ6HVHP+4MOpenStreetMap ID
node 5138913241OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1529401Wikidata ID
Q658240
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Satellite Map
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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: “Karamay Chhī”
- Chinese: “克拉玛依”
- Chinese: “克拉玛依市”
- Chinese: “克拉瑪依”
- Chinese: “克拉瑪依市”
- Czech: “Karamaj”
- Czech: “Karamay”
- Czech: “قاراماي شەھىرى”
- Czech: “克拉玛依市”
- 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”
- 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”
- 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”
- Spanish: “la montaña de oro negro”
- 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”
- Vietnamese: “Khắc Lạp Mã Y”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kelamayi”
- Welsh: “Karamay”
- Wu Chinese: “克拉玛依市”
- Yue Chinese: “克拉瑪依”
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