Everything you need to know about Mongolia
Explore Mongolia from the western Altai and southern Gobi to northern lakes and eastern steppe. Learn its aimags, cities and waters, discover the history and everyday life behind the places, then practise Mongolian. Khalkha Mongolian is the main variety taught here, while Kazakh and other community languages are also part of the countryโs life.
Read it, then make it stick
Geography of Mongolia
Twice the size of Tรผrkiye, with mountains, steppe and the Gobi between Russia and China.
Know the shape of the country
Start with all 21 aimags and the separate Ulaanbaatar municipality, then place 24 cities and towns and find five rivers and five lakes. Zoom in for Orkhon, Darkhan-Uul and Govisรผmber. Sรผkhbaatar city belongs to Selenge aimag, rather than the southeastern aimag named Sรผkhbaatar. These are generalised learning maps. Aimags: geoBoundaries, ยฉ OpenStreetMap contributors/Wambacher, ODbL 1.0, 2017 boundaries. Rivers and lakes: Natural Earth, public domain. Shared lakes Uvs and Buir are shown in full, while rivers retain their Mongolian stretches. City coordinates are curated.
Places worth visiting
Essential ยท Monastery
Gandan Monastery
Monks chant beneath a giant golden statue of the bodhisattva Avalokiteลvara. Come for the morning prayers.
Start in Ulaanbaatarโs monasteries, ride west to the old capital of Karakorum, then pick between the dunes of the Gobi and the lakes of the north. Essential is our shortlist for a first trip, and worth a detour goes further. Select a pin to read about a place, then play the map and find them all.
Take Mongolian with you
Greetings and politeness
Hello, please, thank you, sorry: the ten openers everything else builds on.
Keep going one country deeper
When you have had your fill of Mongolia, the countries marked guide have a page like this one, and every other has maps of its own.
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