Karamay District (Uyghur: قاراماي رايونى, romanized: Qaramay Rayoni, Ⱪaramay Rayoni, Қарамай Райони) is a district of Karamay City, Xinjiang, China. It contains an area of 5,351 km2. According to the 2002 census, it had a population of 150,000.
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The Junggar or Dzungaria oil fields are the oil and gas fields of northern Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China. They include the Karamay oil field in Karamay that started production in 1955.
The Junggar oil fields are one of the three largest oil fields in Xinjiang, the other two being the Tuha in the Turpan and Hami Basins, and the Tarim oil fields in the Tarim Basin. The Junggar fields include such oil fields as:
Karamay oil field
Mahe oil field
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Dushanzi District or Maytag District, is a district of the city of Karamay, in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China and is under the administrative jurisdiction of the Karamay City. It contains an area of 400 km2. According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 60,000.
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The Karamay fire of 8 December 1994 at the Friendship Theatre in Karamay, Xinjiang, China, was among the most notorious fires in China. Its notoriety derives partly from the allegation that the schoolchildren, who were entertaining visiting officials, were ordered to remain seated when the fire started to allow the visiting officials to walk out first. The fire killed 325, including 288 schoolchildren.
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Karamay is a prefecture-level city in the north of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. It is surrounded on all sides by Tacheng Prefecture. 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.
Administrative divisions
Karamay District contains 7 subdistricts, 1 township: