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Also known as Darhan, Darkhan City

capital city of Darkhan-Uul Aimag, Mongolia

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Darkhan is a city and administrative territorial entity in Mongolia, serving as the capital of Darkhan-Uul Province. Established in 1961, the city has a population of 106,470 and covers an area of 103 square kilometers. It is situated at an elevation of 665 meters above sea level and operates within the UTC+08:00 time zone. The official name is Дархан, with the native label also including the traditional script ᠳᠠᠷᠬᠠᠨ.

The city’s postal code is 213800, and its telephone trunk prefix is +976 (0) 137. Darkhan maintains twinned administrative relationships with Zeitz, Kaposvár, and Ulan-Ude. While various sources list slightly different elevation figures, ranging from 665 to 685 meters, the city remains a distinct administrative unit within the province.

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Place details

Locality
Дархан ᠳᠠᠷᠬᠠᠨ
Region
Дархан-Уул ᠳᠠᠷᠬᠠᠨ ᠠᠭᠤᠯᠠ
Country
Монгол улс ᠮᠤᠩᠭᠤᠯ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ
Population
83,883
Timezone
Asia/Ulaanbaatar

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Air quality

10US AQIGood
PM2.5
2.5 µg/m³
PM10
2.6 µg/m³
As of 2026-08-11 08:00 · Open-Meteo

Travel guide

Understand

Darkhan is the third largest city in Mongolia with a population of 74,000. The city, which name means "Blacksmith" in Mongolian, was built as a manufacturing base by the Soviets in 1961 on the Trans-Mongolian Railroad. Much of the industrial base collapsed in the early 1990s, and most of its once large Russian population left. Today it is home to a large steel mill, textile industry, and many universities. It has an expansive layout with open steppe and roaming cattle right into the center of the city. The city is divided into a 'new' and 'old' sections separated by some small hills and ger districts spreading out beyond the developed areas. The railroad station, main Buddhist temple, and the black market are in the Old Darkhan, while most of the nicer hotels, restaurants, and shopping centers, along with the universities and cultural centers are in New Darkhan.

Get around

Darkhan is divided into New and Old Darkhan, separated by about 2 km. Most of the city is stretched along a couple of parallel roads, with buses, taxis and vans racing back and forth. You can either hail your own taxi or jump in one and go to the other side of town. The cost of a shared taxi is 1,000 ₮ per person.

Eat

Avoid Korean and Chinese restaurants, because these types of restaurants prepare their foods out of very low and bad quality raw food materials. Instead, going to other local restaurants and local canteens called Tsainii gazar (Цайны газар) are a safer choice.

Go next

From Darkhan, it is easy to go east to the large copper-mining city of Erdenet, North to the mid-sized Aimag capital of Sukhbaatar, or the beautiful Amarbayasgalant Monastery. Erdenet can be reached by train or bus, Suhkbaatar can be reached by train (~2,800 ₮) or taxi (8,000-10,000 ₮) on paved road, while visiting the monastery will require hiring a taxi for the 2- or 3-hour journey, part of which is unpaved.

Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Encyclopedic overview

Flag of Darkhan Darkhan (/ˈdɑːrkɑːn/; Mongolian: Дархан [tárχəɴ]) is the capital of Darkhan-Uul Province in northern Mongolia, and the third-largest city in the country.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Darkhan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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