Karatay

Karatay or Karatai is a Turkic word that may refer to:

Places

 * Karatay, Konya, a town and district of Konya Province, Turkey
 * Karatay, Russia, a rural locality (a village) in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia
 * Caratai, Karatay, historical name of Castelu, Romania, from the times of the Ottoman Empire

People

 * Qaratays, a Turkic (Tatar) ethnic group that lives near Karatay, Russia
 * Canan Karatay (born 1943), Turkish professor, medical doctor
 * Dursun Karatay (born 1984), Austrian footballer
 * Nefise Karatay (born 1976), Turkish actress
 * Karatai, birth surname of Maksim Łužanin, Belarusian writer and poet