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Ulan Bator, Mongolia

Ulaanbaatar
Улаанбаатар
Urga
Municipality
Official Cyrillic transcription(s)
 • Mongolian Cyrillic Улаанбаатар
 • Transcription Ulaanbaatar
Classical Mongolian transcription(s)
 • Mongolian script ᠤᠯᠠᠭᠠᠨᠪᠠᠭᠠᠲᠤᠷ
 • Transcription Ulaγanbaγatur
Ulaanbaatar City
Ulaanbaatar City
Flag of Ulaanbaatar
Flag
Coat of arms of Ulaanbaatar
Coat of arms
Nickname(s): УБ (UB), Нийслэл (capital), Хот (city)
Location in Mongolia
Location in Mongolia
Coordinates: 47°55′N 106°55′E / 47.917°N 106.917°E / 47.917; 106.917
Country Mongolia
Established as Urga 1639
Current location 1778
Ulaanbaatar 1924
Government
 • Mayor Sunduin Batbold (MPP)
Area
 • Total 4,704.4 km2 (1,816.3 sq mi)
Elevation 1,350 m (4,429 ft)
Population (2013)
 • Total 1,372,000
 • Density 272/km2 (704/sq mi)
Time zone H (UTC+8)
Postal code 210 xxx
Area code(s) +976 (0)11
HDI (2014) 0.818—very high
License plate УБ ,УН
ISO 3166-2 MN-1
Climate BSk
Website www.ulaanbaatar.mn

Ulaanbaatar, formerly anglicised as Ulan Bator /ˌlɑːn ˈbɑːtər/ (Mongolian: Улаанбаатар, [ʊɮɑːm.bɑːtʰɑ̆r], Ulaγanbaγatur, literally "Red Hero") is Mongolia's capital and largest city. A municipality, the city is not part of any aimag (province), and its population as of 2014 was over 1.3 million, almost half of the country's total population.

Located in north central Mongolia, the municipality lies at an elevation of about 1,300 meters (4,300 ft) in a valley on the Tuul River. It is the country's cultural, industrial and financial heart, the centre of Mongolia's road network and connected by rail to both the Trans-Siberian Railway in Russia and the Chinese railway system.

The city was founded in 1639 as a nomadic Buddhist monastic centre. In 1778, it settled permanently at its present location, the junction of the Tuul and Selbe rivers. Before that, it changed location twenty-eight times, with each location being chosen ceremonially. In the twentieth century, Ulaanbaatar grew into a major manufacturing center.


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