Altai is the capital of Govi-Altai Province in western Mongolia, straddling the edge of the Gobi Desert where the Altai Mountains rise from the sand. At an elevation of 2,213 meters it is the highest city in Mongolia, and it lies within the Yesonbulag District roughly 1,000 kilometers southwest of Ulaanbaatar. Population figures range from about 15,800 residents in 2008 to 17,617 in a later count. The city's airport serves regular flights to Arvaikheer, Bayankhongor and Ulaanbaatar.
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1. Altai City (Wikipedia)
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Altai (Mongolian: Алтай хот, romanized: Altai hot, pronounced [aɬˈtʰæˑ χɔʰt]) is the capital of the Govi-Altai province in western Mongolia.
2. Altai, Kazakhstan (Wikipedia)
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1791
3. Opentopodata: SRTM 90 m elevation lookup for Altai
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"elevation": 2158.0
4. United Nations Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States: List of LLDCs
United Nations Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing StatesList of LLDCs, Mongolia entryQuote, List of LLDCs, Mongolia entry
18. Mongolia
5. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 46.25, 96.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 46.25, 96.25
46.25 96.25 BSk
6. GeoNames: Altai - GeoNames
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46.37222 96.25833 P PPLA MN 10 17617 2156 Asia/Hovd
United Nations M49 Standard Country or Area Codes for Statistical Use (Geoscheme)
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Mongolia 496 MNG
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