Khovd is the capital of Khovd Province in western Mongolia and the administrative seat of Jargalant District, sited at the foot of the Altai Mountains and split by the Buyant River, with Khar-Us Lake about 25 kilometers to the east. It was first established by Galdan Boshugtu Khan of the Dzungar Khanate in 1685, and after the Qing dynasty destroyed the Dzungar Khanate the settlement was later moved onto the bank of the Buyant River. In 1912 Mongolian forces captured the city, destroyed its Manchu-Chinese garrisons and ended Qing rule there. Its population reached 29,800 in 2017, up from 26,023 in 2000, and it has a cold desert climate with long arid winters and brief summers.
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Founding Year Population Estimate Year Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Khovd (city) (Wikipedia)
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1731
2. Opentopodata: SRTM 90 m elevation lookup for Khovd
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"elevation": 1396.0
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, 91.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 48.25, 91.75
48.25 91.75 BWk
5. GeoNames: Khovd - GeoNames
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48.00556 91.64194 P PPLA MN 12 6987767 29800 1395 Asia/Hovd
Khovd Province (Wikipedia)
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