Sainshand is the capital of Dornogovi Province in southeastern Mongolia, situated in the eastern Gobi Desert steppe on the Trans-Mongolian Railway. It was founded in 1931 and sits at an elevation of 961 meters. According to the 2022 census the city had 28,097 residents across a district of about 2,300 square kilometers, administratively divided into five communes, including the remote Zuunbayan oil-production settlement 46 kilometers south of the main city. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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1. Sainshand (Wikidata)
P1082 (population)Quote, P1082 (population)
population 19,891 (2008)
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