Brief introduction of Karamay city

Karamay, also known as Oil City and Black Oil Mountain, is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

Karamay is an important petroleum and petrochemical base in China, a new industrialized city in Xinjiang, and a world petroleum and petrochemical industrial cluster. By 2022, the city's four districts will have a total area of 7,733 square kilometers, with a permanent population of 487,000 and an urban population of 482,000, with an urbanization rate of 98.97%.

Karamay is located in the west of Junggar Basin in Xinjiang, in the middle of Eurasia and in the middle of Pan-Central Asia. Karamay means "black oil" in Uighur. Karamay is the only city named after oil in the world. Its name comes from a group of natural asphalt hills and black oil mountains in the northeast corner of the city, and it is known as "the eldest son of China petroleum" and "the holy land of western petroleum industry".

The climate of Karamay city

Karamay city is located in the mid-latitude inland area and belongs to a typical temperate continental climate. Its characteristics are: great difference between cold and summer, dry and little rain, more monsoon in spring and autumn, and great temperature difference between winter and summer. Snow is thin, evaporates quickly and the frozen soil is deep. Strong winds, cold waves, hail, flash floods and other disasters occur frequently. Among the four seasons, winter and summer are long and the temperature difference is large. Spring and autumn are transitional seasons, and the seasonal changes are not obvious. The average annual temperature is 8.6 degrees Celsius.

65438+ 10 is the most Leng Yue, with the monthly average temperature of-15.4℃ and the extreme minimum temperature of -40.5℃, which occurred in Xiaoguai area1984-February 23rd. July is the hottest month, with an average monthly temperature of 27.9℃ and an extreme high temperature of 49. 1℃, which occurred on July 22nd, 20 15 in baijiantan district. The sunshine in July is the most, reaching 302.5 hours, and it is the least in 65438+February, only 99.8 hours. The annual average precipitation is 108.9mm, and the evaporation is 2692. 1mm, which is 24.7 times of the precipitation in the same period.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Karamay City.