Karamay District ( ug, قاراماي رايونى, translit=Qaramay Rayoni, K̡aramay Rayoni, ) is a district within the
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Xinjiang, SASM/GNC: ''Xinjang''; zh, c=, p=Xīnjiāng; formerly romanized as Sinkiang (, ), officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest ...
and is under the administrative jurisdiction of
Karamay City
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 w ...
. It contains an area of 5,351 km
2. According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 150,000.
County-level divisions of Xinjiang
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