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Baruun-Urt
Sign in to saveBaruun-Urt (; , west-long) is a town in eastern Mongolia and the capital of Sükhbaatar Province. The town with its vicinities creates a sum (district) of Sükhbaatar Province. The Baruun-Urt sum area is 59 km², population 15,549, population density 265 per km² (2008). It forms an enclave within the surrounding Sükhbaatar sum.
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- Locality
- Баруун-Урт ᠪᠠᠷᠠᠭᠤᠨ ᠤᠷᠲᠤ
- Region
- Сүхбаатар ᠰᠦᠬᠡ ᠪᠠᠭᠠᠲᠤᠷ
- Country
- Монгол улс ᠮᠤᠩᠭᠤᠯ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ
- Population
- 18,190
- Timezone
- Asia/Ulaanbaatar
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Baruun-Urt District
- Settlement.native_name
- Баруун-Урт сум
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- mn
- Settlement.settlement_type
- District
- Settlement.image_skyline
- SukhbaatarSquare.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Sükhbaatar Square Statue in Baruun-Urt
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Mongolia
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Sükhbaatar Province
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2017
- Settlement.population_total
- 18190
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.timezone
- UTC + 8
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +8
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 981
- Settlement.blank_name_sec1
- Climate
- Settlement.blank_info_sec1
- BSk
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Баруун−Урт
- Population
- 14297
- Area
- 59
- Elevation
- 991
- Image
- SukhbaatarSquare.jpg
Show 4 more facts
- native label
- ᠪᠠᠷᠠᠭᠤᠨ ᠤᠷᠲᠤ
- inception
- 1942-00-00
- Commons category
- Baruun-Urt
- P12749
- Fortuna
via Wikidata · CC0
Travel guide
Understand
This town of 15,000, whose name means 'Eastern Range', lies in the eastern steppe of the Mongolian plateau. The town has prospered thanks to a new zinc mine and plentiful grasses that support over 2 million livestock.
Get in
Buses leave daily from the Eastern Bus Terminal in Ulaanbaatar at 08:00 and 14:00. The 08:00 bus arrives in Baruun-Urt at 23:00. The Bus Terminal is about 10 km east of the center of Ulaanbaatar. Return buses leave at 20:00 from Baruun-Urt. You must buy a ticket a day or two in advance. The ticket is for an exact seat by number. Stops to eat on the way.
There are also shared jeeps leaving from Choibalsan and Ondorhaan daily.
Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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- Population
- Transportation
- Climate
- References
Baruun-Urt (; , west-long) is a town in eastern Mongolia and the capital of Sükhbaatar Province. The town with its vicinities creates a sum (district) of Sükhbaatar Province. The Baruun-Urt sum area is 59 km², population 15,549, population density 265 per km² (2008). It forms an enclave within the surrounding Sükhbaatar sum.
Tömörtiin Ovoo Zinc Mine lies about 13 km north of the town.
On the map
2 mapped locations