Zamyn-Üüd

Zamyn-Üüd District Замын-Үүд сум ᠵᠠᠮ ᠤᠨᠡᠭᠦᠳᠡᠰᠤᠮᠤ
District
Zamyn-Üüd train station
Zamyn-Üüd District
Coordinates: 43°43′01″N 111°54′20″E / 43.71694°N 111.90556°E / 43.71694; 111.90556Coordinates: 43°43′01″N 111°54′20″E / 43.71694°N 111.90556°E / 43.71694; 111.90556
Country	Mongolia
Province	Dornogovi Province
Time zone	UTC + 8 (UTC+8)

Zamyn-Üüd (Mongolian: Замын-Үүд; ᠵᠠᠮ ᠤᠨ ᠡᠭᠦᠳᠡ, road's gate) is a sum (district) of Dornogovi Province in southeastern Mongolia.

The population of Zamyn-Üüd was 11,527 in 2008.

Zamyn-Üüd's actual name comes from the former Dzamiin Üüde settlement located 101 kilometres (63 mi) northwest from the modern town (44°30′N 111°15′E / 44.500°N 111.250°E / 44.500; 111.250).

The town is located on the old trade route between Beijing and Urga/Ulaanbaatar, and is now the most important border crossing between Mongolia and the People's Republic of China, via Erlian. The border control counted more than 950,000 border crossings in 2004. In April 2007, the construction of a 432 kilometres (268 mi) paved road from Choir to Zamyn-Üüd via Sainshand began. Completion is planned for October 2007. However, completion of the road project was pushed back to 2013, with Sainshand to Choir section being finished in September, 2013. A new expanded road border crossing was also completed in 2013 to relieve delays in crossing from China to Mongolia.