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Karakorum

Karakorum is a city in , about 300 km west of Ulaanbaatar as the crow flies. Locals call it Har Horin or Harhorin. Karakorum and its surroundings have been the location of many imperial capitals throughout history, including that of the Uighur Khaganate, the Mongol Empire when Marco Polo visited, and later on, the Northern Yuan.
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  • Type: City with 8,410 residents
  • Description: Sum (district) in Övörkhangai Aimag, Mongolia
  • Also known as: “Harhorin” and “Kharkhorin”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Erdene Zuu and Kharkhorin Rock.

Museum
Photo: Halavar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Monastery is probably the earliest surviving Buddhist monastery in . Built in 1585, it is located in Kharkhorin, and is now included within the Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape World Heritage Site.

Work of art
Photo: auteur, CC BY 2.0.
, also Kharkarin Rock or Phallic Rock, is a large statue of a penis raised on a platform on the steppe, located near in Kharkhorin, of .

Karakorum

Latitude
47.1928° or 47° 11′ 34″ north
Longitude
102.8202° or 102° 49′ 13″ east
Population
8,410
Elevation
1,476 metres (4,843 feet)
IATA airport code
KHR
United Nations Location Code
MN KHR
Open location code
8PV45RVC+43
Open­Street­Map ID
node 690895589
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
7648891
Wiki­data ID
Q932069
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Karakorum” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “خاركورين”
  • Catalan: “Kharkhorin”
  • Cebuano: “Harhorin (distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Harhorin”
  • Chinese: “Kharkhorin”
  • Chinese: “哈尔和林苏木”
  • Chinese: “哈拉和林”
  • Chinese: “哈拉和林苏木”
  • Chinese: “哈拉和林蘇木”
  • Chinese: “哈爾和林”
  • Chinese: “哈爾和林蘇木”
  • Chinese: “哈爾赫林縣”
  • Chinese: “哈爾霍林”
  • Czech: “Charchorin sum”
  • Czech: “Charchorin”
  • Dutch: “Kharkhorin”
  • French: “Kharkhorin”
  • German: “Charchorin”
  • German: “Harhorin”
  • German: “Harorin”
  • Hindi: “खारखोरिन”
  • Hungarian: “Harhorin járás”
  • Hungarian: “Harhorini járás”
  • Italian: “Harhorin”
  • Japanese: “カラコルム”
  • Japanese: “ハラホリン”
  • Japanese: “ハルホリン”
  • Latvian: “Harhorina”
  • Lithuanian: “Charchorinas”
  • Macedonian: “Хархорин”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kharkhorin”
  • Mongolian: “Хархорин сум”
  • Mongolian: “Хархорин”
  • Mongolian: “Хархорум”
  • Persian: “خارخارین، مغولستان”
  • Persian: “خارخورین”
  • Polish: “Charchorin”
  • Polish: “Karakorum”
  • Russian: “Каракорум”
  • Russian: “Хархорин”
  • Scots: “Kharkhorin”
  • Scots: “Хархорин”
  • Spanish: “Jarjorin”
  • Spanish: “Kharkhorin”
  • Swedish: “Charchorin”
  • Swedish: “Harhorin (distrikt)”
  • Turkish: “Harhorin”
  • Ukrainian: “Хархорін”
  • Urdu: “خارخارین”
  • Vietnamese: “Kharhorin”
  • Vietnamese: “Kharkhorin”

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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 “Karakorum”. Photo: Aloxe, CC BY-SA 3.0.