The Kara-Khitan or Qara-Khitai Khanate, also known as Western Liao (1124-1218) is a Khitan empire in Central Asia.

The dynasty is founded by Yelü Dashi, who leads the remnants of the Liao Dynasty to Central Asia after fleeing from the Jurchen conquest of their homeland in North and Northeast of modern day China.

The empire is usurped by the Naimans under Kuchlug in 1211; traditional Chinese, Persian and Arab sources consider the usurpation to be the end of the Kara-Khitan rule.

The empire is later taken by the Mongol Empire in 1218.