Mongolia
Gobi
Govi-Altai Province

Altai

Altai is the capital city of Govĭ-Altai province. Straddling the western edge of the Gobi Desert where the Altai Mountains rise out of the sands, the region seems to symbolize emptiness.
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  • Type: City with 15,800 residents
  • Description: Capital city of Govi-Altai Province, Mongolia
  • Also known as: “Altai City”, “Altay”, “Jusenbulag”, “Usan Bulag”, “Yösönbulag”, and “Yusun-bulak”

Altai

Latitude
46.3643° or 46° 21′ 52″ north
Longitude
96.2533° or 96° 15′ 12″ east
Population
15,800
Elevation
2,156 metres (7,073 feet)
IATA airport code
LTI
United Nations Location Code
MN LTI
Open location code
8MRR9773+P7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 293970113
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1516393
Wiki­data ID
Q433861
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Altai” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “التاي”
  • Asturian: “Altai”
  • Bengali: “আল্টায়”
  • Catalan: “Altai (ciutat)”
  • Catalan: “Altai”
  • Catalan: “Ciutat d’Altai”
  • Cebuano: “Altai (kapital sa lalawigan sa Mongolia)”
  • Cebuano: “Altai”
  • Chinese: “Altai Chhī”
  • Chinese: “尤松布拉克”
  • Chinese: “阿尔泰”
  • Chinese: “阿爾泰”
  • Chinese: “阿爾泰城”
  • Chinese: “阿爾泰市”
  • Czech: “Altaj (Mongolsko)”
  • Czech: “Altaj”
  • Danish: “Altaj”
  • Dutch: “Altaj”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “التاى”
  • Finnish: “Altai”
  • French: “Altay (Mongolie)”
  • French: “Altay”
  • Galician: “Altai, Mongolia”
  • Galician: “Altai”
  • Georgian: “ალთაი”
  • German: “Altai (Stadt)”
  • German: “Altai”
  • Greek: “Αλτάι”
  • Greek: “Πόλη Αλτάι”
  • Gujarati: “અલ્તાઇ”
  • Hindi: “अल्ताई”
  • Hungarian: “Altaj”
  • Indonesian: “Altai”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Altai”
  • Irish: “Altai”
  • Italian: “Altaj”
  • Japanese: “アルタイ (モンゴル)”
  • Japanese: “アルタイ”
  • Kannada: “ಆಲ್ಟಾಯ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Altay”
  • Korean: “알타이”
  • Latvian: “Altaja”
  • Lithuanian: “Altajus (Mongolija)”
  • Lithuanian: “Altajus (Mongolijos miestas)”
  • Lithuanian: “Altajus”
  • Macedonian: “Алтај (град)”
  • Macedonian: “Алтај”
  • Malay: “Altai”
  • Marathi: “अल्ताई”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Altai Chhī”
  • Mongolian: “Алтай хот”
  • Mongolian: “Алтай”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Altai”
  • Persian: “آلتای، مغولستان”
  • Persian: “آلتای”
  • Persian: “التای، مغولستان”
  • Polish: “Altaj”
  • Polish: “Ałtaj”
  • Polish: “Jösönbulag”
  • Portuguese: “Altai (cidade)”
  • Portuguese: “Altai”
  • Portuguese: “Altay (cidade)”
  • Russian: “Алтай (город, Говь-Алтай)”
  • Russian: “Алтай (город, Монголия)”
  • Russian: “Алтай, Гоби-Алтайский аймак”
  • Russian: “Алтай”
  • Sinhala: “අල්ටයි”
  • Spanish: “Altai (ciudad de Mongolia)”
  • Spanish: “Altái (ciudad de Mongolia)”
  • Spanish: “Altai (ciudad en Mongolia)”
  • Spanish: “Altái (ciudad en Mongolia)”
  • Spanish: “Altai (Mongolia)”
  • Spanish: “Altai City”
  • Spanish: “Altai”
  • Spanish: “Altái”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad Altai (Mongolia)”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad Altái (Mongolia)”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad Altai”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad Altái”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Altai (Mongolia)”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Altái (Mongolia)”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Altai”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Altái”
  • Spanish: “Yesonbulag sum”
  • Spanish: “Yesönbulag sum”
  • Spanish: “Yesonbulag”
  • Spanish: “Yesönbulag”
  • Swedish: “Altai”
  • Swedish: “Altaj (provinshuvudstad)”
  • Swedish: “Altaj”
  • Tamil: “அல்டை”
  • Telugu: “ఆల్తాయ్”
  • Thai: “อัล ตัยฟ์”
  • Turkish: “Altai”
  • Turkish: “Altay, Moğolistan”
  • Turkish: “Altay”
  • Ukrainian: “Алтай”
  • Urdu: “التائی (شہر)”
  • Urdu: “التائی”
  • Vietnamese: “Altai (thành phố)”
  • Vietnamese: “Altai”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Altai (syudad)”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Altai”

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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 “Altai”. Photo: Ksuryawanshi, CC BY-SA 4.0.