Mörön (city)

Mörön Мөрөн ᠮᠥᠷᠡᠨ
District
Mörön District Мөрөн сум ᠮᠥᠷᠡᠨᠰᠤᠮᠤ
Mörön from south, July 2008
Mörön Location in Mongolia
Coordinates: 49°38′08″N 100°09′20″E / 49.63556°N 100.15556°E / 49.63556; 100.15556Coordinates: 49°38′08″N 100°09′20″E / 49.63556°N 100.15556°E / 49.63556; 100.15556
Country	Mongolia
Province	Khövsgöl
Area
• District	39.7 sq mi (102.9 km2)
• Urban	6.19 sq mi (16.04 km2)
Elevation	5,610 ft (1,710 m)
Population (2010)
• District	35,789
Time zone	UTC+8
Area code(s)	+976 (0)138
License plate	ХӨ (_ variable)

Mörön (Mongolian: Мөрөн, lit. "river"; also spelled Murun) is the administrative center of Khövsgöl Aimag (province) in northern Mongolia. Before 1933, Khatgal had been the Aimag capital.

Although a poorly developed town, Mörön has a hospital, a museum, a theatre, a post office, several schools and kindergartens, like any other provincial capitals of Mongolia. Additionally, it was connected to the Mongolian central power grid in 2004. As a part of the present government's effort to connect all the aimag capitals with Ulaanbatar by paved road, the town has a paved road connecting to Mongolia's capital city Ulaanbaatar since December 2014.

The settlement stems from the Möröngiin Khuree monastery, which had been founded in 1809/11 on the banks of the Delgermörön river. By the beginning of the 20th century, the monastery had grown to a population of about 1300 lamas, but was destroyed in 1937. A small new monastery (Danzadarjaa Khiid) was erected on the western edge of the town in the 1990s.

Most of inhabitants live in ger districts.

The Mörön Airport (ICAO: ZMMN, IATA: MXV) has two runways, one paved and one gravel. It is served by regular flights from and to Ulaanbaatar. Some flights to the western aimags may stop over.

Mörön experienced a subarctic climate with semi-arid influences based upon the 1961 to 1990 reference period resulting in long, very dry, frigid winters and short, warm summers. Just a 0.3 °C (0.5 °F) rise of May temperatures would render the climate to be semi-arid, since it is too dry to be considered humid continental. Given the mildness of northern latitudes in recent decades, the climate is likely to be semi-arid if newer averages were used.