Baganuur

Baganuur, a name meaning Little Lake, is one of the nine districts of Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, and is divided into five khoroos. It is a remote exclave of the capital covering 620 square kilometres on the border between Töv and Khentii provinces. It began as a Soviet military base for the 12th Motor Rifle Division and later became the site of Mongolia's largest open-pit coal mine, which makes it one of the country's major industrial centers and one of its ten largest cities. A side line of the Trans-Mongolian Railway ends there and mostly carries coal, and a 138-kilometer paved road was completed in 2004. On 31 December 2007 a methanol poisoning from substandard local vodka killed 14 people. Baganuur has a dry-winter subarctic climate, Köppen type Dwc, and efforts are ongoing to separate its administration from the capital.