{"id":10759,"date":"2025-12-17T17:51:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T17:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azarradiscovermongolia.com\/?p=10759"},"modified":"2026-03-04T11:48:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:48:20","slug":"practical-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azarradiscovermongolia.com\/fr\/practical-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Practical Information"},"content":{"rendered":"
POPULATION:<\/td>3.0 million<\/td><\/tr>
AREA:<\/td>1,566,000 sq km (610,740 sq mi)<\/td><\/tr>
LAND BOUNDARIES:<\/td>8,158 km, with Russia 3,485 km and with China 4,673 km<\/td><\/tr>
AVERAGE ALTITUDE:<\/td>1,580 m above sea-level<\/td><\/tr>
TERRAIN:<\/td>Vast semi-desert and desert plains, mountains in west and southwest,
Gobi Desert in southeast<\/td><\/tr>
PEOPLE:<\/td>Khalkha Mongols (86%), Kazaks (6%), about a dozen other Mongolian 
ethnic groups<\/td><\/tr>
LANGUAGES:<\/td>Mongolian, Kazakh, Russian, Chinese. English is widely spoken in the 
Ulaanbaatar.<\/td><\/tr>
RELIGIONS:<\/td>Tibetan Buddhism, Muslim, Christian and Shamanism<\/td><\/tr>
LITERACY RATE:<\/td>82.9%<\/td><\/tr>
CLIMATE:<\/td>Average summer temperature +20’C, average winter temperature -26’C, average rainfall 200-220 mm. Winter lasts from November to late April, Spring from May through June, Summer from July through September.<\/td><\/tr>
POLITICAL SYSTEM:<\/td>Parliamentary republic. President elected for four years. Present President Battulga Khaltmaa, elected in 2017. Prime Minister appointed by State Great Khural for four years. Present Prime Minister Mr. Oyun-Erdene Luvsannamsrain was appointed in 2021.<\/td><\/tr>
LEGISLATURE:<\/td>State Great Khural (Parliament), unicameral with 76 members elected for four years. The last election was held in 2016.<\/td><\/tr>
JUDICIAL SYSTEM:<\/td>Mongolian judicial system consists of Constitutional Court , Supreme Court, Aimag and capital city courts, soum and district courts.<\/td><\/tr>
STATE STRUCTURE:<\/td>Mongolia is a unitary state and divided administratively into Aimags (21) and a capital city; Aimags are subdivided into soums; soums into bags; and a capital city into districts; districts into khoroos.<\/td><\/tr>
NATIONAL CURRENCY:<\/td>Tugrik (MNT), about MNT 2850 = USD 1 (by JAN 2021)<\/td><\/tr>
FISCAL YEAR:<\/td>January 1 – December 31<\/td><\/tr>
MAIN ENTRY POINTS:<\/td>Chinggis Khaan (airport in Ulaanbaatar ), Sukhbaatar (railway station on Mongolian-Russian border) and Zamyn Uud (railway station on Mongolian-Chinese border)<\/td><\/tr>
SEA ACCESS:<\/td>Tianjin\/China (1,344 km) and Nakhodka\/Russia (4,037 km)<\/td><\/tr>
PUBLIC HOLIDAYS:<\/td>December 31- January 1 – New Year 3 days, 
in January\/February – Mongolian New Year (Tsagaan Sar), 
June 1 – Mother and Child day, 
July 11-13 – National Holiday (Naadam festival)<\/td><\/tr>
TIME:<\/td>Add 8 hours to Greenwich Mean Time<\/td><\/tr>
NORMAL WORKING HOURS:<\/td>09.00-13.00 and 14.00-18.00<\/td><\/tr>
ELECTRIC CURRENT:<\/td>220 volts\/50 HZ<\/td><\/tr>
WEIGHT AND MEASURES:<\/td>Metric System<\/td><\/tr>
VISA ARRANGEMENTS:<\/td>Visa shall be issued by MongoliaEmbassies and Diplomatic Missions as well as Honorary consuls of Mongolia , or can be obtained at the airport at a cost of US$53 but must be accompanied by an invitation. learn more<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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POPULATION: 3.0 million AREA: 1,566,000 sq km (610,740 sq mi) LAND BOUNDARIES: 8,158 km, with Russia 3,485 km and with China 4,673 km AVERAGE ALTITUDE: 1,580 m above sea-level TERRAIN: Vast semi-desert and desert plains, mountains in west and southwest,Gobi Desert in southeast PEOPLE: Khalkha Mongols (86%), Kazaks (6%), about a dozen other Mongolian ethnic groups […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-about-mongolia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azarradiscovermongolia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/azarradiscovermongolia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/azarradiscovermongolia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azarradiscovermongolia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azarradiscovermongolia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10759"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/azarradiscovermongolia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12321,"href":"https:\/\/azarradiscovermongolia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10759\/revisions\/12321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azarradiscovermongolia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azarradiscovermongolia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azarradiscovermongolia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}