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The Karamay fire (Chinese: 克拉玛依大火) 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 fact 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.
Karamay (also spelled Karamai) 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 District (Uyghur: قاراماي رايونى, romanized: Qaramay Rayoni, K̡aramay Rayoni, Қарамай Райони) is a district of Karamay City, Xinjiang, China. It contains an area of 5,351 km 2. According to the 2002 census, it had a population of 150,000.
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 km 2 (150 sq mi). According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 60,000.
But even so, a significant part of the Irtysh's waters were artificially diverted via the Irtysh–Karamay–Ürümqi Canal to the drier regions of southern Dzungarian Basin. Kanas Lake. Elsewhere, most of Xinjiang's rivers are comparatively short streams fed by the snows of the several ranges of the Tian Shan.
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Karamay (simplified Chinese: 克拉玛依; traditional Chinese: 克拉瑪依; pinyin: Kèlāmǎyī) is a 2010 documentary film by Chinese director Xu Xin about the 1994 Karamay fire. [1] It is largely black-and-white.
Kelmayisaurus (meaning "Karamay lizard") is an extinct genus of allosauroid theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous. It was roughly 10–12 meters (33–39 feet) long and its name refers to the petroleum-producing city of Karamay in the Xinjiang province of western China near where it was found.