1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Mongolia
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Ulaanbaatar—844,818, Asia/Ulaanbaatar, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: capital and largest city of Mongolia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Ulaanbaatar is GeoNames ID 2028462. Its recorded administrative path is Ulaanbaatar → Mongolia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Ulan Bator occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2025-08-25; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Ulaanbaatar ranks 661 by recorded population. Inside the 1 selected Mongolia entries it ranks 1; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 382. Its 844,818 population value is 1.00 times the 844,818 median for the country cohort and 0.84 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Ulaanbaatar is rank 1 among the 1 selected Mongolia entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Ulaanbaatar's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Ulaanbaatar's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Irkutsk at 521.691 km with 623,869 recorded people; Bayan Nur at 797.852 km with 1,760,000 recorded people; Baotou at 840.389 km with 2,150,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 318.698 km. Compared with Irkutsk, Ulaanbaatar's recorded population is 1.35 times as large. Against Ulaanbaatar, Irkutsk follows Irkutskiy Rayon → Irkutsk Oblast → Russia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Russia cohort rather than Mongolia, uses Asia/Irkutsk instead of Asia/Ulaanbaatar, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Ulaanbaatar's. Against Ulaanbaatar, Bayan Nur follows Bayannur Shi → Inner Mongolia → China in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected China cohort rather than Mongolia, uses Asia/Shanghai instead of Asia/Ulaanbaatar, and carries populated place rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is above Ulaanbaatar's. Against Ulaanbaatar, Baotou follows Baotou Shi → Inner Mongolia → China in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected China cohort rather than Mongolia, uses Asia/Shanghai instead of Asia/Ulaanbaatar, and carries populated place rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is above Ulaanbaatar's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,180 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Ulaanbaatar's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 2028462, the coordinate pair 47.9077 / 106.8832, country rank 1 of 1, and neighbor GeoNames 2023469 at 521.691 km bind Ulaanbaatar to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Ulaanbaatar's reference point is 47.9077° north and 106.8832° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Ulaanbaatar is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Ulaanbaatar's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Ulaanbaatar's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Ulaanbaatar's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Ulaanbaatar, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Ulaanbaatar's closest other entries in this atlas are Irkutsk (521.691 km), Bayan Nur (797.852 km), Baotou (840.389 km).
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-08-25; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.