Mongolia
Western Mongolia
Bayan-Ölgii Province

Ölgii

Ölgii is the capital of Bayan-Ölgii province and is also known as Olgii, Ulgy, or Ulgii. Ölgii serves as the starting off point for visiting and and the beautiful snow-capped mountains, glaciers, plentiful wildlife, nomadic herders who live in felt tents called gers, and eagle hunters just outside the city.
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  • Type: City with 28,400 residents
  • Description: capital-city of the Bayan-Ölgii aimag in Mongolia
  • Also known as: “Bayan-Ulegey”, “OElgii”, “Olgii (city)”, “Ölögey”, “Ul’gey”, “Ulegei”, “Ulegey”, “Ulegy”, and “Ulgii”
Photo: Alexandr frolov, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Ölgii

Latitude
48.9682° or 48° 58′ 5″ north
Longitude
89.9621° or 89° 57′ 44″ east
Population
28,400
Elevation
1,715 metres (5,627 feet)
IATA airport code
ULG
United Nations Location Code
MN ULG
Open location code
8MWFXX96+7R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 293911735
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1515436
Wiki­data ID
Q297060
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Ölgii” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أولجي”
  • Asturian: “Ölgii”
  • Basque: “Olgi (hiria)”
  • Basque: “Olgi”
  • Bavarian: “Ölgii”
  • Bengali: “ওলজি”
  • Catalan: “Ölgii”
  • Cebuano: “Ölgiy (kapital sa lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Ölgiy”
  • Chinese: “Ölgii”
  • Chinese: “乌列盖”
  • Chinese: “烏列蓋”
  • Czech: “Ölgij”
  • Danish: “Ölgi”
  • Dutch: “Oelgi”
  • Dutch: “Olgi”
  • Dutch: “Ölgi”
  • Dutch: “Ölgii”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اولجى”
  • Esperanto: “Ölgiy”
  • Estonian: “Ölgij”
  • Finnish: “Ölgii”
  • French: “Olgii”
  • French: “Ölgii”
  • French: “Olgiy”
  • French: “Ölgiy”
  • Georgian: “ულგიი”
  • German: “Ölgii”
  • Greek: “Ολγκίι”
  • Gujarati: “ઓલ્ગી”
  • Hebrew: “אולגי”
  • Hindi: “ओल्जियाई (शहर)”
  • Hindi: “ओल्जियाई”
  • Hungarian: “Ölgij”
  • Indonesian: “Ölgii”
  • Irish: “Ölgii”
  • Italian: “Ôlgij”
  • Italian: “Ölgiy”
  • Japanese: “ウルギー”
  • Kannada: “ಒಲ್ಗಿ”
  • Kazakh: “Өлгей”
  • Kazakh: “Өлгий”
  • Kazakh: “Өлке”
  • Korean: “울기”
  • Latin: “Olgii”
  • Latin: “Ölgii”
  • Latvian: “Ulgī”
  • Lithuanian: “Olgis”
  • Lithuanian: “Ulegėjus”
  • Macedonian: “Олги (град)”
  • Macedonian: “Олги”
  • Malay: “Olgii”
  • Marathi: “अल्गी”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ölgii”
  • Moksha: “Улгий”
  • Mongolian: “Өлгий”
  • Mongolian: “ᠥᠯᠦᠭᠡᠢ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Olgii”
  • Persian: “اولگی”
  • Polish: “Olgij”
  • Polish: “Ölgij”
  • Polish: “Ulegej”
  • Polish: “Ulgiy”
  • Portuguese: “Ölgii”
  • Portuguese: “Olgij”
  • Portuguese: “Ölgiy”
  • Russian: “Баян-Улэгэй”
  • Russian: “Улгий (город)”
  • Russian: “Улгий”
  • Russian: “Улэгэй”
  • Serbian: “Өлгий”
  • Serbian: “Улгиј”
  • Sinhala: “ඕල්ගි”
  • Spanish: “Olgii”
  • Spanish: “Ölgii”
  • Spanish: “Olgiy”
  • Spanish: “Ölgiy”
  • Swedish: “Ölgij”
  • Tamil: “ஓள்கிய்”
  • Telugu: “ఓల్గి”
  • Thai: “ออยจี”
  • Turkish: “Ölgi”
  • Ukrainian: “Улгий”
  • Ukrainian: “Улґий”
  • Urdu: “اولگی (شہر)”
  • Urdu: “اولگی”
  • Vietnamese: “Olgii (thành phố)”
  • Vietnamese: “Ölgii”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ölgii (syudad)”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ölgii”
  • Western Frisian: “Ölgi”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Ölgii”. Photo: Altaihunters, CC BY-SA 3.0.