Northern Mongolia
Bulgan Province
Bulgan District

Bulgan

Bulgan is a city in the Bulgan province of . The city is home to several small museums and a small active monastery that occupies a temple built in 1876, with about 30 active monks just south of the city.
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  • Type: City with 11,300 residents
  • Description: Capital city and sum (district) of Bulgan Province, Mongolia
  • Also known as: “Bulagan”, “Bulagan somon”, “Bulagan Suma”, “Bulagan Sumu”, “Bulagan-khan”, and “Bulgan Han”

Bulgan

Latitude
48.8129° or 48° 48′ 47″ north
Longitude
103.5323° or 103° 31′ 56″ east
Population
11,300
Elevation
1,204 metres (3,950 feet)
IATA airport code
UGA
United Nations Location Code
MN UGA
Open location code
8PW5RG7J+5W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 308463710
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2032201
Wiki­data ID
Q945055
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Bulgan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بولجان”
  • Asturian: “Bulgan”
  • Belarusian: “Булган”
  • Bengali: “বুলগান”
  • Bulgarian: “Булган”
  • Catalan: “Bulgan”
  • Cebuano: “Bulgan”
  • Chinese: “Bulgan”
  • Chinese: “布尔干”
  • Chinese: “布爾干”
  • Chinese: “布爾干市”
  • Czech: “Bulgan”
  • Danish: “Bulgan”
  • Dutch: “Bulgan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بولجان”
  • Esperanto: “Bulgan”
  • Estonian: “Bulgan”
  • Finnish: “Bulgan”
  • French: “Bulgan”
  • Georgian: “ბულგანი”
  • German: “Bulgan”
  • Greek: “Μπούλγκαν”
  • Gujarati: “બલ્ગન”
  • Hindi: “बल्गान (शहर)”
  • Hindi: “बल्गान”
  • Hungarian: “Bulgan járás”
  • Hungarian: “Bulgan”
  • Indonesian: “Bulgan”
  • Irish: “Bulgan”
  • Italian: “Bulgan”
  • Japanese: “ブルガン”
  • Japanese: “ボルガン”
  • Kannada: “ಬುಲ್ಗನ್”
  • Korean: “볼간”
  • Korean: “볼강”
  • Latvian: “Bulgana”
  • Lithuanian: “Bulganas”
  • Macedonian: “Булган”
  • Malay: “Bulgan”
  • Marathi: “बुलगण”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bulgan”
  • Mongolian: “Bulgan”
  • Mongolian: “Булган”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bulgan”
  • Persian: “بولغان”
  • Persian: “بولگان”
  • Polish: “Bulgan”
  • Portuguese: “Bulgan”
  • Russian: “Булган”
  • Sinhala: “බලගන්”
  • Spanish: “Bulgan”
  • Swedish: “Bulgan”
  • Tamil: “புல்கண்”
  • Telugu: “బుల్గాన్”
  • Thai: “บัลแกน”
  • Turkish: “Bulgan”
  • Ukrainian: “Булган”
  • Urdu: “بلگان (شہر)”
  • Urdu: “بلگان”
  • Vietnamese: “Bulgan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bulgan”

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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 “Bulgan”. Photo: Torbenbrinker, CC BY-SA 3.0.