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Central Mongolia

Ulaanbaatar

Ulaanbaatar — also Ulan Bator, UB, or in the local language, Khot — is the capital and the largest city of . With more than 1.6 million residents as of 2023, Ulaanbaatar is home to roughly half of Mongolia's population and serves as the starting point for pretty much all travel around Mongolia.
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  • Type: City with 1,400,000 residents
  • Description: capital and largest city of Mongolia
  • Also known as: “East Hüree”, “Hüree”, “Ih Huree”, “Ikh Khüree”, “Khan of Urga”, “Khüree”, “Kulun”, “Niislel Hüree”, “Örgöö”, “Ulaan Baatar”, “Ulaan Baatar Hoto”, “Ulaanbaator”, “Ulaanbaator hota”, “Ulaanbaatur”, “Ulan Bator”, “Ulan Bator Hoto”, “Ulan-Bator”, “Ulan-Bator Khoto”, “Uranbatoru”, “Urga”, “Uruga”, “Wulan Batuo”, “Их хүрээ ᠶᠡᠬᠡ ᠬᠦᠷᠢᠶᠡᠨ”, “Нийслэл хүрээ ᠨᠡᠶᠢᠰᠯᠡᠯ ᠬᠦᠷᠢᠶᠡᠨ”, “Номын хүрээ ᠨᠣᠮ ‍ᠤᠨ ᠬᠦᠷᠢᠶᠡᠨ”, “Өргөө ᠥᠷᠭᠦᠭᠡ”, “Урга”, and “Хүрээ ᠬᠦᠷᠢᠶᠡᠨ”
  • Historically known as: “Da Hüryee”, “Da Khure”, “Da-Kure”, “K’u-lun”, and “库倫”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include National Museum of Mongolia and Choijin Lama Temple Museum.

Museum
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The formerly known as the National Museum of Mongolian History is a history museum focusing on Mongolian history located in Chingeltei, Ulaanbaatar.

Museum
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The Choijin Lama Temple is a Buddhist monastery in Sükhbaatar District, Ulaanbaatar, . The complex consists of six temples originally occupied by the brother of the ruler the Eighth Bogd Jetsun Dampa Khan, Choijin Lama Luvsankhaidav, who was the state oracle and 'Precious Wisdom and Clear Devotion' Khutugtu at the time.

Stadium
Photo: Mongolian Football Federation, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a in Ulaanbaatar, .

Ulaanbaatar

Latitude
47.9185° or 47° 55′ 7″ north
Longitude
106.9177° or 106° 55′ 4″ east
Population
1,400,000
Elevation
1,284 metres (4,213 feet)
IATA airport code
ULN
Open location code
8PV8WW99+93
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27547986
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2028462
Wiki­data ID
Q23430
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Ulaanbaatar” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Ulan Bator”
  • Afrikaans: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Albanian: “Ulan Bator”
  • Albanian: “Ulan Batori”
  • Albanian: “Ulanbatar”
  • Albanian: “Ulanbator”
  • Amharic: “ኡላን ባቶር”
  • Amharic: “ኡላዓን ባዓታር”
  • Arabic: “أولان باتور”
  • Arabic: “أولان بطار”
  • Arabic: “أولانباتور”
  • Aragonese: “Ulán Bator”
  • Armenian: “Ուլան Բատոր”
  • Asturian: “Ulán Bátor”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ulan-Bator”
  • Balinese: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Bashkir: “Улан-Батор”
  • Basque: “Ulaan Baatar”
  • Basque: “Ulan Bator”
  • Belarusian: “Улан-Батар”
  • Bengali: “উলানবাটর”
  • Bengali: “উলানবাটোর”
  • Bosnian: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Bosnian: “Ulan Bator”
  • Breton: “Oulan Bator”
  • Breton: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Breton: “Ulan Bator”
  • Bulgarian: “Улан Батор”
  • Bulgarian: “Улан-Батор”
  • Bulgarian: “Уланбатор”
  • Burmese: “ဦလန်ဘာတာမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Catalan: “Ulan Bator”
  • Cebuano: “Ulaanbaatar Hot”
  • Central Bikol: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئولان باتور”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئولان باتۆر”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئولانباتور”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئولانباتۆر”
  • Chechen: “Улан-Батор”
  • Chinese: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Chinese: “乌兰巴托”
  • Chinese: “乌兰巴托市”
  • Chinese: “京都库伦”
  • Chinese: “京都庫倫”
  • Chinese: “大库伦”
  • Chinese: “库伦” (historical)
  • Chinese: “庫倫”
  • Chinese: “烏蘭巴托”
  • Church Slavic: “Оуланбатаръ”
  • Chuvash: “Улан Батор”
  • Chuvash: “Улан-Батор”
  • Cornish: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Corsican: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Croatian: “Ulaan Baatar”
  • Croatian: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Croatian: “Ulan Bator”
  • Czech: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Czech: “Ulan Bator”
  • Czech: “Ulanbatar”
  • Czech: “Ulanbátar”
  • Czech: “Ulánbátar”
  • Czech: “Urga”
  • Danish: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Danish: “Ulan Bator”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Ulan Bator”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Urga”
  • Dutch: “Oelan Bator”
  • Dutch: “Oelan-Bator”
  • Dutch: “Oelanbator”
  • Dutch: “Ulaan Bator”
  • Dutch: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Dutch: “Ulaanbataar”
  • Dutch: “Ulaanbator”
  • Dutch: “Ulan Bator”
  • Dutch: “Ulanbator”
  • Dutch: “Urga”
  • Eastern Mari: “Улан-Батор”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اولان باتور”
  • Erzya: “Улан-Батор ош”
  • Erzya: “Улан-Батор”
  • Esperanto: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Esperanto: “Ulaanbaataro”
  • Esperanto: “Ulan Bator”
  • Esperanto: “Ulan-Bator”
  • Esperanto: “Ulan-Batoro”
  • Esperanto: “Ulanbatar”
  • Esperanto: “Ulanbataro”
  • Esperanto: “Ulanbator”
  • Esperanto: “Ulanbatoro”
  • Estonian: “Ih hüree”
  • Estonian: “Nijslel hüree”
  • Estonian: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Estonian: “Ulan-Bator”
  • Estonian: “Urga”
  • Estonian: “Urgaa”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Ulan Bator”
  • Finnish: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Finnish: “Ulan Bator”
  • Finnish: “Ulan-Bator”
  • Finnish: “Urga”
  • French: “Ikh khüree”
  • French: “Niislel khüree”
  • French: “Nomyn khüree”
  • French: “Örgöö”
  • French: “Oulan Bator”
  • French: “Oulan-bator”
  • French: “Oulan-Bator”
  • French: “Ourga”
  • French: “Ulaan Baatar”
  • French: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • French: “Ulan-Bator”
  • French: “Улаанбаатар”
  • Gagauz: “Ulan Batur”
  • Galician: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Galician: “Ulán Bátor”
  • Georgian: “ულან ბატორი”
  • Georgian: “ულან-ბატორი”
  • German: “MN-1”
  • German: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • German: “Ulan Bator”
  • German: “Ulan-Bator”
  • German: “Ulanbator”
  • Greek: “Ουλάν Μπατόρ”
  • Greek: “Ουλάν-Μπατόρ”
  • Gujarati: “ઉલાનબાતર”
  • Haitian: “Oulan-Batò”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Hausa: “Ulan Bato”
  • Hebrew: “אולאאנבטאר”
  • Hebrew: “אולאן באטר”
  • Hebrew: “אולאן בטור”
  • Hebrew: “אולאן-באטר”
  • Hebrew: “אולאן-בטור”
  • Hebrew: “אולאנבאטר”
  • Hebrew: “אולן בטור”
  • Hebrew: “אולן-בטור”
  • Hindi: “उलान बटोर”
  • Hindi: “उलान बतोर”
  • Hindi: “उलान बातर”
  • Hindi: “उलान बातार”
  • Hindi: “उलानबाटार”
  • Hindi: “उलानबातर”
  • Hungarian: “Ulánbátor”
  • Hungarian: “Urga”
  • Icelandic: “Úlan Bator”
  • Ido: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Ido: “Ulan Bator”
  • Iloko: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Indonesian: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Indonesian: “Ulan Bator”
  • Interlingua: “Ulan Bator”
  • Interlingue: “Ulan-Bator”
  • Irish: “Ulánbátar”
  • Italian: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Italian: “Ulan Bator”
  • Italian: “Ulan-Bator”
  • Italian: “Urga”
  • Japanese: “ウランバートル”
  • Japanese: “ウランバートル市”
  • Japanese: “オラーンバータル”
  • Japanese: “ニースレル・フレー”
  • Japanese: “フレー”
  • Japanese: “烏蘭巴特”
  • Javanese: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Kalaallisut: “Ulan Bator”
  • Kalmyk: “Улан Баатр”
  • Kannada: “ಉಲಾನ್ ಬತೊರ್”
  • Kannada: “ಉಲಾನ್ಬ‍ಟೌ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Ulan-bator”
  • Kashmiri: “اُلان باتور”
  • Kazakh: “Улаанбаатар”
  • Kazakh: “Уланбаатар”
  • Kazakh: “Ұлаанбаатар”
  • Kazakh: “Ұлан-Батыр”
  • Kazakh: “Ұланбатыр”
  • Khmer: “អ៊ូលេនបាធរ”
  • Khmer: “អ៊ូឡង់បាទ័រ”
  • Kirghiz: “Улан-Баатыр”
  • Komi: “Улан-Батор”
  • Korean: “우르가”
  • Korean: “울란 바토르”
  • Korean: “울란바따르”
  • Korean: “울란바타르 시”
  • Korean: “울란바타르”
  • Korean: “울란바토르 시”
  • Korean: “울란바토르”
  • Korean: “울랑바타르”
  • Lao: “ອູລານບາຕາ”
  • Latin: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Latin: “Ulaanbataar”
  • Latin: “Ulan Bator”
  • Latin: “Ulanbatoria”
  • Latin: “Urga”
  • Latvian: “Ulanbatora”
  • Lezghian: “Улан-Батор”
  • Ligurian: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Ulan Bator”
  • Literary Chinese: “烏蘭巴托”
  • Lithuanian: “Churė”
  • Lithuanian: “Ich Churė”
  • Lithuanian: “Kulunas”
  • Lithuanian: “Kuren”
  • Lithuanian: “Nijslel Churė”
  • Lithuanian: “Ulan Batoras”
  • Lithuanian: “Urga”
  • Livvi: “Ulan-Bator”
  • Lojban: “ulyn.bator”
  • Lombard: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Lombard: “Ulan Bator”
  • Low German: “Ulan Bator”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Luxembourgish: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Luxembourgish: “Ulan Bator”
  • Luxembourgish: “Ulan-Bator”
  • Macedonian: “Улан Батор”
  • Maithili: “उलानबटोर”
  • Malagasy: “Ulan Bator”
  • Malay: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Malay: “Ulan Bator”
  • Malayalam: “ഉലാൻ ബതോർ”
  • Malayalam: “ഉലാൻബാതാർ”
  • Maltese: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Marathi: “उलानबातर”
  • Marathi: “उलानबातार”
  • Mazanderani: “اولان باتور”
  • Mazanderani: “اولانباتار”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Minangkabau: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Mingrelian: “ულან-ბატორი”
  • Moksha: “Улаанбаатар”
  • Mongolian: “Да хүрээ”
  • Mongolian: “Их хүрээ”
  • Mongolian: “Нийслэл хүрээ”
  • Mongolian: “Номын хүрээ”
  • Mongolian: “Улаанбаатар хот”
  • Mongolian: “Улаанбаатар”
  • Mongolian: “Улаанбаатор”
  • Mongolian: “Хүрээ”
  • Mongolian: “ᠤᠯᠠᠭᠠᠨᠪᠠᠭᠠᠲᠤᠷ”
  • Mongolian: “ᠨᠡᠶᠢᠰᠯᠡᠯ ᠬᠦᠷᠢᠶᠡᠨ”
  • Mongolian: “ᠨᠣᠮ ‍ᠤᠨ ᠬᠦᠷᠢᠶᠡᠨ”
  • Mongolian: “ᠬᠦᠷᠢᠶᠡᠨ”
  • Mongolian: “ᠶᠡᠬᠡ ᠬᠦᠷᠢᠶᠡᠨ”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ؤلان باطار”
  • Nauru: “Ulan Bator”
  • Nepali: “उलानबटोर”
  • Northern Frisian: “Ulan-Bator”
  • Northern Luri: “اولان باتور”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ulan Bator”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ulan-Bator”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ulan Bator”
  • Norwegian: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Norwegian: “Ulan Bator”
  • Novial: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ulaan Baatar”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ulan Bator”
  • Ossetian: “Улан-Батор”
  • Panjabi: “ਉਲਾਨ ਬਤੋਰ”
  • Panjabi: “ਉਲਾਨ ਬਾਤਰ”
  • Papiamento: “Ulan Bator”
  • Persian: “اولان باتور”
  • Persian: “اولانباتار”
  • Persian: “اولان‌باتور”
  • Piemontese: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Piemontese: “Ulan Bator”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Ulan Bator”
  • Polish: “Ułan Bator”
  • Polish: “Urga”
  • Portuguese: “Ulã Bator”
  • Portuguese: “Ulã-Bator”
  • Portuguese: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Portuguese: “Ulan Bator”
  • Portuguese: “Ulan-Bator”
  • Portuguese: “Urga”
  • Pushto: “اولان باتور”
  • Romanian: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Romanian: “Ulan Bator”
  • Romanian: “Ulan-Bator”
  • Romanian: “Ulanbator”
  • Russia Buriat: “Ехэ Хүреэн”
  • Russia Buriat: “Ниислэл Хүреэн”
  • Russia Buriat: “Улаан Баатар”
  • Russia Buriat: “Улаан-Баатар”
  • Russia Buriat: “Үргөө”
  • Russian: “Их Хүрээ”
  • Russian: “Столица Монголии”
  • Russian: “Улаанбаатар”
  • Russian: “Улан-Батор”
  • Sakizaya: “U-lan-pa-tuo”
  • Santali: “ᱩᱞᱟᱱᱵᱟᱴᱚᱨ”
  • Sardinian: “Ulan Bator”
  • Scots: “Ulan Bator”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Ulan Bator”
  • Serbian: “Улаанбаатар”
  • Serbian: “Улан Батор”
  • Serbian: “Улан-Батор”
  • Serbian: “Уланбатар”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ulan Bator”
  • Shona: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Sicilian: “Ulan Bator”
  • Silesian: “Ułan Bator”
  • Sindhi: “الان باتر”
  • Sinhala: “උලාන්බාටර්”
  • Sinhala: “ඌෆා”
  • Slovak: “Ulanbatar”
  • Slovak: “Ulanbátar”
  • Slovenian: “Ulan Bator”
  • Somali: “Ulan Bator”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اولان‌باتور”
  • Spanish: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Spanish: “Ulaanbataar”
  • Spanish: “Ulan Bator”
  • Spanish: “Ulán Bator”
  • Spanish: “Ulan-Bator”
  • Spanish: “Ulanbator”
  • Spanish: “Urga”
  • Swahili: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Swahili: “Ulan Bator”
  • Swahili: “Ulanbaatar”
  • Swedish: “Örgöö”
  • Swedish: “Ulaan-Baatar”
  • Swedish: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Swedish: “Ulaanbataar”
  • Swedish: “Ulan Bator”
  • Swedish: “Ulan-Bator”
  • Swedish: “Ulanbator”
  • Tagalog: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Tagalog: “Ulan Bator”
  • Tajik: “Улан-Батор”
  • Talysh: “Ulan-Bator”
  • Tamil: “உலான் பத்தூர்”
  • Tamil: “உலான் பாடர்”
  • Tamil: “உலான்பாட்டார்”
  • Tamil: “உளன்படார்”
  • Tamil: “ஊலான் பாடோர்”
  • Tatar: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Tatar: “Ulan Bator”
  • Tatar: “Улан-Батор”
  • Telugu: “ఉలాన్బతార్”
  • Telugu: “ఊలాన్ బటోర్”
  • Thai: “อูลานบาตอร์”
  • Thai: “อูลานบาตาร์”
  • Tibetan: “ཝུ་ལན་བ་ཐུར”
  • Turkish: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Turkish: “Ulan Bator”
  • Turkish: “Ulan Batur”
  • Turkish: “Ulanbatur”
  • Turkish: “Urga”
  • Turkmen: “Ulan-Bator”
  • Udmurt: “Улан-Батор”
  • Uighur: “Ulanbatur”
  • Uighur: “ئۇلانباتۇر”
  • Ukrainian: “Улан-Батор”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Ulan Bator”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Ulan-Bator”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Ulanbatar”
  • Urdu: “اولان‌ باتور”
  • Urdu: “منگولیا کا دارالحکومت”
  • Uzbek: “Ulan-Bator”
  • Venetian: “Ulan Bator”
  • Veps: “Ulanbatar”
  • Vietnamese: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Vietnamese: “Ulan Bator”
  • Vlaams: “Oelan-Bator”
  • Volapük: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ulan Bator”
  • Welsh: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Welsh: “Ulan Bator”
  • Western Frisian: “Ulaanbaatar”
  • Western Panjabi: “اولان‌ باتور”
  • Wu Chinese: “乌兰巴托”
  • Yakut: “Улаанбаатар”
  • Yiddish: “אולאן באטאר”
  • Yiddish: “אולאַנבאַטאָר”
  • Yoruba: “Ulan Bator”
  • Yoruba: “Ulanbator”
  • Yue Chinese: “烏蘭巴托”
  • Zhuang: “Ulan Bator”
  • Zulu: “i-Ulaanbaatar”
  • “Ulanbatar”

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