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Mongolia

Mongolia · Монгол улс
Asia · Eastern Asia

0Population

1.56Mkm² of land

$4.34KGDP / person

UlaanbaatarCapital

ISO codes: MN · MNG
Density: 2 /km²
Languages: Mongolian
Currency: Mongolian tögrög (MNT)
Dial code: +976
Internet domain: .mn
Time zones: 2
Coastline: Landlocked
Map centre: 45.9970° N, 104.1500° E
Demonym: Mongolian
UN region: Eastern Asia
Economy: Developing region
Income group: Lower middle income
Total GDP: $14B
Sovereignty: Independent · UN member
Borders: 2

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By the numbers

How Mongolia stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.

Population

136th

of 242 · 0.04% of world population

Land area

20th

of 242 · 1.04% of world land

GDP per person

154th

richest of 242 by output per person

Population density

228th

most crowded of 242

Ten facts about Mongolia

The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.

1

The least densely populated sovereign country on Earth, with roughly two people per square kilometre.

2

Population is about 3,225,167 people, the 136th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 2,380 of everyone alive.

3

Covers 1,564,110 km², making it the 20th largest country here - about 6.5 times the size of the United Kingdom.

4

Population density is about 2 people per km², among the emptiest countries in the world.

5

The capital is Ulaanbaatar, at 47.92° N, 106.91° E, with a metropolitan population of about 885,000.

6

Shares land borders with 2 countries: China and Russia.

7

Landlocked: every route to the sea crosses at least one border.

8

Spans 2 time zones, from Asia/Hovd to Asia/Ulaanbaatar.

9

The currency is the Mongolian tögrög (MNT, symbol ₮).

10

The official language is Mongolian.

Local time

Live, from PHP's IANA database.

Asia/Hovd

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UTC+07:00

Asia/Ulaanbaatar

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UTC+08:00

Cities

The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.

1 ★ Ulaanbaatar Ulaanbaatar 47.9186° N, 106.9147° E 885K

2 Erdenet Orhon 49.0533° N, 104.1183° E 79.65K

3 Choibalsan Dornod 48.0666° N, 114.5060° E 33.38K

4 Dund-Us Hovd 48.0166° N, 91.6333° E 30.5K

5 Dalandzadgad Ömnögovi 43.5836° N, 104.4403° E 15.09K

Land neighbours

2 countries share a border with Mongolia.