Sükhbaatar (city)

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Sükhbaatar (Mongolian: Сүхбаатар, Russian: Сухэ-Батор) is the capital of Selenge Province in northern Mongolia, on the Orkhon river. It is a station on the the Trans-Mongolian Railway.

City population is 19.224 (end of 2007[1])

The city was founded in 1940 and named after the Mongolian revolutionary leader Damdin Sükhbaatar.

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Sums of Selenge
Altanbulag · Baruunbüren · Bayangol · Javkhlant · Khüder · Khushaat · Mandal · Orkhon · Orkhontuul · Sant · Saikhan · Shaamar · Sükhbaatar · Tsagaannuur · Tüshig · Yeröö · Züünbüren
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Coordinates: 50°14′11″N 106°12′23″E / 50.23639, 106.20639

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