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.
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Founding Year Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Sainshand (Wikidata)
P1082 (population)Quote, P1082 (population)
population 19,891 (2008)
2. Opentopodata: SRTM 90 m elevation lookup for Sainshand
Opentopodataresults, elevation in metresQuote, results, elevation in metres
"elevation": 955.0
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. Sainshand, Mongolia (Wikipedia)
Climate sectionQuote, Climate section
Sainshand experiences a desert climate (Köppen BWk)
5. IANA Time Zone Database: IANA Time Zone Database, asia zone file
IANA Time Zone DatabaseZone Asia/UlaanbaatarQuote, Zone Asia/Ulaanbaatar
8:00 Mongol
Sainshand (Wikipedia)
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Sainshand (Mongolian: Сайншанд) is the capital of Dornogovi Province in Mongolia.
- In Group: Cities of Eastern Asia (World), Wikipedia lead / Wikidata P17, confirms city and country
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