Mongolia

Mongolia has wide open spaces for experiencing the outdoors for those who want adventure. Its vast and majestic emptiness is the country's enduring appeal: it brings the traveller into a close communion with nature and its nomadic inhabitants.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations: Ulaanbaatar and Erdenet.

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— also Ulan Bator, UB, or in the local…

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, with a population of nearly 89,000, is the…

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is the largest freshwater lake in Mongolia by volume.

Destinations to Discover

Places to explore: Central Mongolia and Gobi.

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is a region in Mongolia that contains…

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, sometimes Govi, is a region in Mongolia that covers the Desert in Mongolia.

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is a region in Mongolia.

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is a region in Mongolia covering the…

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is a region in Mongolia.
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Mongolia

  • Type: Country with 3,180,000 residents
  • Description: country in East Asia
  • Also known as: “Bông-kó͘-kok”, “Bông-kó·”, “MGL”, “mn”, “MN”, “MNG”, “Mongalie”, “Mongol Peoples Republic”, “Mongol State”, “Mongolian People’s Republic”, “Mongolie-extérieure”, “Mongoliston”, “Monǧoluston”, “State of Mongolia”, “Ŝtato Mongolio”, “Ŝtato Mongolujo”, “Република Монголија”, “მონღოლეთიშ სახენწჷფო”, “مونقولوستان”, “ᨆᨚᨂᨚᨒᨗᨕ”, “몽고”, and “外蒙古”
  • Languages: Mongolian and Russian
  • Neighbors: and
  • Categories: sovereign state, landlocked country, and locality
  • Location: ,
  • View on Open­Street­Map
Latitude of center
46.74° or 46° 44′ 24″ north
Longitude of center
103.97° or 103° 58′ 12″ east
Population
3,180,000
Area
1,565,000 km² (604,250 miles²)
Elevation
1,387 metres (4,551 feet)
Capital
Currency
Tugrik (MNT)
Phone code
976
Internet domain
.mn
Open­Street­Map ID
node 432425040
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
2029969
Wiki­data ID
Q711
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Mongolia” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Монголиа”
  • Achinese: “Mongolia”
  • Adyghe: “Монголие”
  • Afrikaans: “Mongolië”
  • Akan: “Mɔngolia”
  • Albanian: “Mongoli”
  • Albanian: “Mongolia”
  • Amharic: “ሞንጎሊያ”
  • Amharic: “ሞንጎልያ”
  • Amis: “Mongolia”
  • Angika: “मंगोलिया”
  • Arabic: “منغوليا”
  • Aragonese: “Mongolia”
  • Armenian: “Մոնղոլիա”
  • Arpitan: “Mongolia”
  • Arpitan: “Mongolie”
  • Assamese: “মংগোলিয়া”
  • Assamese: “মঙ্গোলিয়া”
  • Asturian: “Mongolia”
  • Atayal: “Mongolia”
  • Awadhi: “मङ्गोलिया”
  • Azerbaijani: “Monqoliya”
  • Azerbaijani: “Monqolustan”
  • Balinese: “Mongolia”
  • Bambara: “Moŋoli”
  • Bashkir: “Монголия”
  • Basque: “Mongolia”
  • Batak Toba: “Mongolia”
  • Bavarian: “Mongolei”
  • Belarusian: “Манголія”
  • Bengali: “মঙ্গোলিয়া”
  • Bengali: “মোঙ্গোলিয়া”
  • Betawi: “Monggoli”
  • Bhojpuri: “मंगोलिया”
  • Bishnupriya: “মঙ্গোলিয়া”
  • Bislama: “Mongolia”
  • Bosnian: “Mongolija”
  • Brahui: “Mangolíá”
  • Breton: “Mongolia”
  • Buginese: “ᨆᨚᨂᨚᨒᨗᨐ”
  • Buginese: “ᨆᨚᨊᨁᨚᨒᨗᨕ”
  • Bulgarian: “Монголия”
  • Burmese: “မွန်ဂိုးလီးယား”
  • Burmese: “မွန်ဂိုးလီးယားနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Mongòlia”
  • Cebuano: “Monggolya”
  • Cebuano: “Mongolia”
  • Central Bikol: “Mongolya”
  • Central Kurdish: “مەنگۆلیا”
  • Chavacano: “Mongolia”
  • Chechen: “Монголи”
  • Cherokee: “ᎹᏂᎪᎵᎠ”
  • Cherokee: “ᎼᏂᎪᎵᏱ”
  • Chinese: “蒙古”
  • Chinese: “蒙古国”
  • Chinese: “蒙古國”
  • Church Slavic: “Мѫголи”
  • Chuvash: “Монголи”
  • Cornish: “Mongoli”
  • Corsican: “Mungolia”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Moğolistan”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Moñğol Ulusı”
  • Croatian: “Mongolija”
  • Czech: “Mongolsko”
  • Dagbani: “Mongolia”
  • Danish: “Mongoliet”
  • Dhivehi: “މޮންގޯލިއާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Moğolıstan”
  • Dotyali: “मङ्गोलिया”
  • Dutch: “Mongolië”
  • Dzongkha: “སོག་པོ་”
  • Dzongkha: “སོག་པོ་ཡུལ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Монголий”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مونجوليا”
  • Erzya: “Монголия”
  • Esperanto: “Mongolio”
  • Esperanto: “Mongolujo”
  • Estonian: “Mongoolia”
  • Ewe: “Mongolia nutome”
  • Ewe: “Mongolia”
  • Extremaduran: “Mongolia”
  • Faroese: “Mongolia”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Mongolia”
  • Fijian: “Mongolia”
  • Finnish: “Mongolia”
  • French: “Mongolie”
  • Fulah: “Monngolii”
  • Fulah: “Monngoliya”
  • Gagauz: “Mongoliya”
  • Galician: “Mongolia”
  • Ganda: “Mongoliya”
  • Georgian: “მონღოლეთი”
  • German: “Mongolei”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Mongolia”
  • Gilaki: “مؤغؤلستان”
  • Goan Konkani: “Mongolia”
  • Goan Konkani: “मंगोलिया”
  • Gorontalo: “Mongolia”
  • Greek: “Μογγολία”
  • Guarani: “Mongolia”
  • Guarani: “Mongólia”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Mongoli”
  • Gujarati: “મંગોલિયા”
  • Haitian: “Mongoli”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Mùng-kú-koet”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Mùng-kú”
  • Hausa: “Mangolia”
  • Hausa: “Mangoliya”
  • Hawaiian: “Monokolia”
  • Hebrew: “מונגוליה”
  • Hiligaynon: “Monggolya”
  • Hindi: “मंगोलिया”
  • Hungarian: “Mongólia”
  • Iban: “Mongolia”
  • Icelandic: “Mongólía”
  • Ido: “Mongolia”
  • Igbo: “Mongolia”
  • Iloko: “Monggolia”
  • Iloko: “Mongolia”
  • Inari Sami: “Mongolia”
  • Indonesian: “Mongolia”
  • Ingush: “Моалойче”
  • Interlingua: “Mongolia”
  • Interlingue: “Mongolia”
  • Irish: “an Mhongóil”
  • Irish: “An Mhongóil”
  • Italian: “Mongolia”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Mangguolia”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Manguolia”
  • Japanese: “モンゴル”
  • Japanese: “モンゴル国”
  • Javanese: “Mongolia”
  • Jèrriais: “Mongolie”
  • Kabardian: “Монгол”
  • Kabiyè: “Moŋgolii”
  • Kabyle: “Mongolie”
  • Kabyle: “Mungulya”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Mongolia”
  • Kalaallisut: “Mongolia”
  • Kalmyk: “Моңһлмудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಮಂಗೋಲಿಯ”
  • Kannada: “ಮಂಗೋಲಿಯಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಮೊಂಗೋಲಿಯಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Mongoliya”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Монголия”
  • Kashmiri: “منگولیا”
  • Kashmiri: “مَنگولِیا”
  • Kashubian: “Mòngòliô”
  • Kashubian: “Mòngolskô”
  • Kazakh: “Моңғолия”
  • Khmer: “ម៉ុងហ្គោលី”
  • Kikuyu: “Mongolia”
  • Kinaray-A: “Monggolya”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Mongoliya”
  • Kirghiz: “Монголия”
  • Kirghiz: “Моңголия”
  • Kirghiz: “Моңголстан”
  • Komering: “Mongolia”
  • Komi: “Монголия”
  • Kongo: “Mongolia”
  • Korean: “몽골”
  • Kurdish: “Mongolya”
  • Kurdish: “مەنگۆلیا”
  • Ladin: “Mongolia”
  • Ladino: “Mongolia”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດມົງໂກລີ”
  • Lao: “ມອງໂກເລຍ”
  • Latin: “Mogolia”
  • Latin: “Mongolia”
  • Latvian: “Mongolija”
  • Lezghian: “Монголия”
  • Ligurian: “Mongòllia”
  • Limburgan: “Mongolië”
  • Lingala: “Mongolí”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Mongol”
  • Literary Chinese: “蒙古”
  • Literary Chinese: “蒙古國”
  • Lithuanian: “Mongolija”
  • Livvi: “Mongoulii”
  • Lojban: “mongolo”
  • Lombard: “Mungolia”
  • Low German: “Mongolei”
  • Low German: “Mongolië”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Mongolska”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Mongoli”
  • Luxembourgish: “Mongolei”
  • Macedonian: “Монголија”
  • Madurese: “Mongolia”
  • Magahi: “मङ्गोलिया”
  • Maithili: “मङ्गोलिया”
  • Malagasy: “Mongolia”
  • Malagasy: “Môngôlia”
  • Malay: “Mongolia”
  • Malayalam: “മംഗോളിയ”
  • Maltese: “il-Mongolja”
  • Maltese: “Mongolja”
  • Manipuri: “ꯃꯣꯡꯒꯣꯂꯤꯌꯥ”
  • Manx: “Yn Vongoil”
  • Maori: “Mongōria”
  • Marathi: “मंगोलिया”
  • Mazanderani: “موغولئون”
  • Mazanderani: “موغولستون”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Mùng-gū”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Mūng-gū”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bông-kó͘”
  • Minangkabau: “Mongolia”
  • Mingrelian: “მონღოლეთი”
  • Mirandese: “Mongólia”
  • Moksha: “Монголие”
  • Moksha: “Монголия”
  • Mongolian: “Bügd Nayramdah Mongol Ard Uls”
  • Mongolian: “Mongol Uls”
  • Mongolian: “Монгол Улс”
  • Mongolian: “Монгол”
  • Mongolian: “ᠮᠤᠩᠭᠤᠯ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “مونڭوليا”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “مونݣوليا”
  • Nauru: “Mongoriya”
  • Navajo: “Chʼah Diʼilii Bikéyah”
  • Nepali: “मङ्गोलिया”
  • Newari: “मंगोलिया”
  • North Ndebele: “Mongolia”
  • Northern Frisian: “Mongolei”
  • Northern Luri: “موغولئستان”
  • Northern Sami: “Mongolia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mongolia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mongolia”
  • Norwegian: “Mongolia”
  • Novial: “Mongolia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mongolia”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Mongolland”
  • Oriya: “ମଙ୍ଗୋଲିଆ”
  • Oromo: “Mongooliyaa”
  • Ossetian: “Мангол”
  • Pa'o Karen: “မွန်ဂိုလီးယားခမ်းထီ”
  • Pali: “मंगोलिया”
  • Pampanga: “Monggolia”
  • Pampanga: “Mongolia”
  • Panjabi: “ਮੰਗੋਲੀਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Mongolia”
  • Persian: “مغلستان”
  • Persian: “مغولستان”
  • Picard: “Mongolie”
  • Piemontese: “Mongòlia”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Mongoelya”
  • Polish: “Mongolia”
  • Portuguese: “Mongólia”
  • Pushto: “منګوليا”
  • Quechua: “Mongolia”
  • Quechua: “Mungul suyu”
  • Quechua: “Munqul suyu”
  • Romanian: “Mongolia”
  • Romanian: “Монголия”
  • Romansh: “Mongolia”
  • Rundi: “Mongoliya”
  • Russia Buriat: “Монгол Улас”
  • Russia Buriat: “Монгол”
  • Russian: “Монголия”
  • Rusyn: “Монголія”
  • Rusyn: “Монґолія”
  • Sakizaya: “Mongolia”
  • Samoan: “Mogitolia”
  • Samogitian: “Monguolėjė”
  • Sango: “Mongolïi”
  • Sanskrit: “मंगोलिया”
  • Sanskrit: “मङ्गोलिया”
  • Santali: “ᱢᱚᱝᱜᱚᱞᱤᱭᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Mongòlia”
  • Scots: “Mongolie”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Dùthaich nam Mongol”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Mongòilia”
  • Serbian: “Mongolija”
  • Serbian: “Монголија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mongolija”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းမူင်ႇၵူဝ်းလီးယႃး”
  • Shona: “Mongolia”
  • Sicilian: “Mongolia”
  • Silesian: “Můngolijo”
  • Sindhi: “منگوليا”
  • Sinhala: “මොංගෝලියාව”
  • Sinhala: “මොන්ගෝලියාව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Mongolia”
  • Slovak: “Mongolsko”
  • Slovenian: “Mongolija”
  • Somali: “Mongolia”
  • Somali: “Mongooliya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “موغولیستان”
  • Southern Sami: “Mongolija”
  • Spanish: “Mongolia”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Mongolikondre”
  • Sundanese: “Mongolia”
  • Swahili: “Mongolia”
  • Swati: “IMongoliya”
  • Swedish: “Mongoliet”
  • Swiss German: “Mongolei”
  • Tagalog: “Monggolya”
  • Tagalog: “Mongolia”
  • Tagalog: “Mongolya”
  • Tajik: “Муғулистон”
  • Talysh: “Mongolistan”
  • Talysh: “Monqoluston”
  • Tamil: “மங்கோலியா”
  • Taroko: “Mongolia”
  • Tatar: “Монголия”
  • Telugu: “మంగోలియా”
  • Tetum: “Mongólia”
  • Thai: “ประเทศมองโกเลีย”
  • Thai: “มองโกเลีย”
  • Tibetan: “མོང་གོལ།”
  • Tibetan: “སོག་ཡུལ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ሞንጎሊያ”
  • Tigrinya: “ሞንጎልያ”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Mongokōlia”
  • Tulu: “ಮಂಗೋಲಿಯಾ”
  • Tumbuka: “Mongolia”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “منڨوليا”
  • Turkish: “Moğolistan”
  • Turkmen: “Mongoliýa”
  • Tuvinian: “Моол”
  • Twi: “Mongolia”
  • Tyap: “Monggoliya”
  • Udmurt: “Монголия”
  • Uighur: “موڭغۇلىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Монголія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Mongolska”
  • Urdu: “منگولیا”
  • Uzbek: “Moʻgʻuliston”
  • Uzbek: “Mongoliya”
  • Venetian: “Mongołia”
  • Venetian: “Mongòlia”
  • Veps: “Mongolii”
  • Vietnamese: “Mông Cổ”
  • Vlaams: “Mongoolje”
  • Vlax Romani: “Mongolia”
  • Volapük: “Mongolän”
  • Võro: “Mongoolia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mongolya”
  • Welsh: “Mongolia”
  • Western Armenian: “Մոնկոլիա”
  • Western Frisian: “Mongoalje”
  • Western Frisian: “Mongolië”
  • Western Mari: “Монголи”
  • Western Panjabi: “منگولیا”
  • Wolof: “Mongoli”
  • Wu Chinese: “蒙古国”
  • Yakut: “Монголия”
  • Yiddish: “מאנגאליי”
  • Yoruba: “Mogolia”
  • Yoruba: “Mòngólíà”
  • Yue Chinese: “蒙古國”
  • Zeeuws: “Monholië”
  • Zhuang: “Mungzguj”
  • Zulu: “i-Mongolia”
  • “ma Monko”
  • “Mongolia”
  • “Mongolija”
  • “Монголија”
  • “मंगोलिया”

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