Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Ulan Bator
- Region
- Asia, Eastern Asia
- Population
- 3,568,978 (2025)
- Area
- 1,565,000 km²
- Currency
- Mongolian tögrög (MNT)
- Languages
- Mongolian, Russian
- Calling code
- +976
- Internet domain
- .mn
- ISO codes
- MN, MNG, 496
- Time zone
- UTC+7:00 to UTC+8:00
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- ##### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Mongolia covers about 1,565,000 square kilometres. By area it ranks 20th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Iran and a little larger than Peru. It shares a land border with 2 neighbours: China, Russia. It is landlocked, which means it has no sea coast. Its centre lies at about 46° north, 105° east, in the northern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 3.57 million people live in Mongolia (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 133rd most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure. On average there are 2.3 people to each square kilometre. About 71 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 72 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Mongolian, Russian. A person from Mongolia is called Mongolian.
Money and economy
The currency is the Mongolian tögrög (code MNT, symbol ₮). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 25.4 billion (2025), which is about US$ 7,108 for each person (2025).
Time
Mongolia spans 2 time zone areas, from UTC+7:00 to UTC+8:00. Clocks stay the same all year: there is no daylight saving time.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Ulan Bator | 844,818 |
| Erdenet | 97,814 |
| Darhan | 83,883 |
| Choibalsan | 44,835 |
| Nalayh | 39,579 |
| Mörön | 39,404 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in Eastern Asia
Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, North Korea, South Korea, Taiwan. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.