Karamai - Karamai

Japanese: カラマイ - からまい

A city on the western edge of the Junggar Basin in the northern part of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China. Population 220,000 (1994). It developed with the development of oil fields in 1955, and today is an oil industrial city with various departments such as exploration, mining, machinery manufacturing, and scientific research. It was incorporated as a city in 1958. It produces high-quality oil with low sulfur content and a low freezing point, which is sent to refineries in Dushanzi in the south, Urumqi (Urumqi) in the east, and Lanzhou. Karamay means "black oil" in Uighur. [Ono Kikuo]

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

中国，新疆ウイグル自治区北部，ジュンガル(準噶爾)盆地西縁の都市。人口22万(1994)。1955年の油田開発とともに発展し，今日では探査，採掘，機械製造，科学研究などの諸部門をもつ石油工業都市である。58年市制施行。硫黄分が少なく凝結温度が低い良質油を産出し，南の独山子，東のウルムチ(烏魯木斉)，蘭州などの製油所へ送られている。カラマイはウイグル語で〈黒い油〉の意。【小野菊雄】

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