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Choibalsan

Choibalsan is the capital of Dornod province and the fourth-largest city in Mongolia. The name of the city was Bayan Tu'men until 1941, when it was renamed after the communist leader Khorloogiin Choibalsan.
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  • Type: City with 38,500 residents
  • Description: city in Mongolia
  • Also known as: “Choibolsan”, “Choybalsan”, “Choybolsan”, “Herelen”, “K’o-lu-lun”, “Karulen”, “Kerulen”, “Kerulen Urgo”, “Kerulun”, “Kerulyun”, “Kurulun”, “Kyrylun”, “Pa-yin-t’u-men”, “Sain Beise”, “San Beisa-Urgo”, “San Beise”, “San-beyse”, “Say-Beyse”, and “Urgo”
  • Historically known as: “Bain Tumen”, “Baintōmenhashū”, “Bayan Tumen”, “Bayan Tümen”, “Bayn-Tumen”, and “Brin Tumen”

Choibalsan

Latitude
48.0688° or 48° 4′ 8″ north
Longitude
114.5241° or 114° 31′ 27″ east
Population
38,500
Elevation
741 metres (2,431 feet)
IATA airport code
COQ
United Nations Location Code
MN COQ
Open location code
8PWP3G9F+GM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 293932664
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2032054
Wiki­data ID
Q318245
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Choibalsan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تشويبالسان”
  • Asturian: “Choibalsan”
  • Basque: “Txoibalsan”
  • Belarusian: “Чайбалсан”
  • Bengali: “চৌইবালসান”
  • Bulgarian: “Баян-Тумен”
  • Bulgarian: “Сан Бейсе”
  • Bulgarian: “Чойбалсан”
  • Catalan: “Choibalsan”
  • Cebuano: “Choibalsan”
  • Chinese: “Choibalsan”
  • Chinese: “乔巴山”
  • Chinese: “喬巴山”
  • Chinese: “喬巴山市”
  • Chinese: “桑貝子”
  • Croatian: “Čojbalsan”
  • Czech: “Bajan Tumen”
  • Czech: “Čojbalsan”
  • Danish: “Tsjojbalsan”
  • Dutch: “Choybalsan”
  • Dutch: “Tsjojbalsan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تشويبالسان”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉoibalsan”
  • Estonian: “Tšojbalsan”
  • Finnish: “Choibalsan”
  • Finnish: “Tšoibalsan”
  • French: “Choybalsan”
  • French: “Tchoïbalsan”
  • Georgian: “ჩოიბალსანი”
  • German: “Bajan Tümen”
  • German: “Tschoibalsan”
  • German: “Bajan Tumen” (historical)
  • Greek: “Τσοϊμπαλσάν”
  • Gujarati: “ચોઇબાલ્સન”
  • Hebrew: “צ’ויבלסאן”
  • Hindi: “चोइबल्सान”
  • Hungarian: “Csojbalszan”
  • Indonesian: “Choibalsan”
  • Irish: “Choibalsan”
  • Italian: “Choibalsan”
  • Italian: “Čojbalsan”
  • Japanese: “チョイバルサン”
  • Japanese: “チョイバルサン市”
  • Kannada: “ಚೋಯಿಲ್ಸಾನ್”
  • Korean: “처이발상”
  • Korean: “초이발산”
  • Latvian: “Čoibalsana”
  • Lithuanian: “Čoibalsanas”
  • Macedonian: “Чојбалсан”
  • Malay: “Choibalsan”
  • Marathi: “चोइबाल्सन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Choibalsan”
  • Mingrelian: “ჩოიბალსანი”
  • Mongolian: “Choybalsan”
  • Mongolian: “Баян Түмэн” (historical)
  • Mongolian: “Чойбалсан”
  • Mongolian: “ᠴᠣᠶᠢᠪᠠᠯᠰᠠᠩ”
  • Nauru: “Choibalsan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Choibalsan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tsjoibalsan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tsjojbalsan”
  • Norwegian: “Tsjojbalsan”
  • Persian: “چوی بالسان”
  • Persian: “چوی‌بالسان”
  • Polish: “Bajan Tümen”
  • Polish: “Cojbalsan”
  • Polish: “Czojbalsan”
  • Polish: “Czojbałsan”
  • Portuguese: “Choibalsan”
  • Portuguese: “Choybalsan”
  • Portuguese: “Tchoibalsan”
  • Romanian: “Choibalsan”
  • Russian: “Баян Түмэн”
  • Russian: “Баян-Тумен”
  • Russian: “Баян-Түмэн”
  • Russian: “Чойбалсан”
  • Scots: “Choibalsan”
  • Sinhala: “චෝයිබල්සන්”
  • Slovenian: “Čoibalsan”
  • Spanish: “Choybalsan”
  • Swedish: “Bayan Tümen”
  • Swedish: “Tjojbalsan”
  • Tamil: “சோய்பல்சான்”
  • Telugu: “చియోబాల్సన్”
  • Thai: “คอยบาซาน”
  • Thai: “ชอยบัลซัน”
  • Turkish: “Çoybalsan”
  • Ukrainian: “Чойбалсан”
  • Urdu: “چوئبالسان (شہر)”
  • Urdu: “چوئبالسان”
  • Uzbek: “Choybalsan”
  • Veps: “Čoibalsan”
  • Vietnamese: “Choibalsan”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Choibalsan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Choibalsan”
  • Western Frisian: “Tsjojbalsan”

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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 “Choibalsan”. Photo: Vadaro, Public domain.