Choibalsan is the fourth largest city in Mongolia, after Ulaanbaatar, Darkhan, and Erdenet, and is the capital of Dornod Province, situated on the Kherlen River at an elevation of 747 meters. It was known as Bayan Tumen until 1941, when it was renamed for the communist leader Khorloogiin Choibalsan to mark the twentieth anniversary of the 1921 Mongolian revolution.
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1. Wikidata: Choibalsan
- Wikidata Q318245, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- In Group: Cities of Eastern Asia (World), Wikipedia infobox, country field
View the Source2. Choibalsan (city) (Wikipedia)
3. 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
4. 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 48.25, 114.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 48.25, 114.75
48.25 114.75 BSk
5. GeoNames: Choibalsan - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 2032054, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)Quote, cities500 record 2032054, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
48.07257 114.53264 P PPLA MN 06 44835 741 Asia/Ulaanbaatar
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