San Antonio (/ˌsæn ænˈtoʊnioʊ/ SAN an-TOH-nee-oh; Spanish for "Saint Anthony"), officially the City of San Antonio, is a city in Texas, United States. The city is the seventh-most populous in the United States, the second-largest in the Southern United States, and the second-most populous in Texas. It is the 12th most-populous city in North America, with 1,434,625 residents in 2020.
Founded as a Spanish mission and colonial outpost in 1718, the city in 1731 became the first chartered civil settlement in what is now present-day Texas. The area was then part of the Spanish Empire. From 1821 to 1836, it was part of the Mexican Republic. It is the oldest municipality in Texas, having celebrated its 300th anniversary on May 1, 2018.
Karamay City, one of the four prefecture-level cities in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, is resident in Karamay District. It is an important national petroleum and petrochemical base and a new type of industrialized city built in Xinjiang. Karamay is located in the west of Junggar Basin, the central area of Eurasia and Pan-Central Asia, and is the gathering area of the world's petroleum and petrochemical industry. Karamay, the Uyghur language means "black oil". Karamay is a city named after oil, named after a group of natural asphalt hills in the northeast corner of the city. Karamay is the first large oil field to be explored and developed since the founding of New China. It was founded in 1958. In 2002, its crude oil output exceeded 10 million tons, making it the first large oil field in western China with a crude oil output of more than 10 million tons. Kramer, December 20, 2011