Baruun-Urt
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Baruun-Urt (Mongolian: Баруун−Урт, west-long) is a town in eastern Mongolia and the capital of Sükhbaatar Province. The town with its vicinities creates a sum (district) of Sükhbaatar Province. The Baruun-Urt sum area is 59 km², population 15,549, population density 265 per km² (2008). It forms an enclave within the surrounding Sükhbaatar sum.
Tömörtiin Ovoo Zinc Mine lies about 13 km north of the town.
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[edit] Population
| 1959 est. |
1969 census |
1979 census |
1989 census |
1994 est. |
2000 census |
2006 est. |
2008 est. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6,000 | 8,000 | 11,600 | 16,100 | 17,289 | 15,133 | 12,000 | 12,944 |
[edit] Transportation
The Baruun-Urt Airport (UUN/ZMBU) has one unpaved runway and but no longer receives regular flights to Ulan Bator.
[edit] Climate
Baruun-Urt experiences a semi-arid climate (Köppen BSk) with long, very dry, frigid winters and short, very warm summers.
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | −16.3 (2.7) |
−12 (10.4) |
−1.2 (29.8) |
10.7 (51.3) |
19.2 (66.6) |
24.5 (76.1) |
26.2 (79.2) |
24.4 (75.9) |
17.9 (64.2) |
9.2 (48.6) |
−4.1 (24.6) |
−13.4 (7.9) |
7.09 (44.77) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −21.5 (−6.7) |
−18.1 (−0.6) |
−8.2 (17.2) |
3.0 (37.4) |
11.4 (52.5) |
17.6 (63.7) |
20.0 (68.0) |
18.0 (64.4) |
10.8 (51.4) |
1.7 (35.1) |
−10.3 (13.5) |
−18.8 (−1.8) |
0.47 (32.84) |
| Average low °C (°F) | −26.2 (−15.2) |
−23.2 (−9.8) |
−14.5 (5.9) |
−4 (24.8) |
3.9 (39.0) |
11.2 (52.2) |
14.0 (57.2) |
12.0 (53.6) |
4.5 (40.1) |
−4.2 (24.4) |
−15.5 (4.1) |
−23.2 (−9.8) |
−5.43 (22.22) |
| Precipitation mm (inches) | 1.8 (0.071) |
1.5 (0.059) |
2.6 (0.102) |
6.7 (0.264) |
13.1 (0.516) |
35.3 (1.39) |
61.2 (2.409) |
50.6 (1.992) |
21.2 (0.835) |
5.9 (0.232) |
2.7 (0.106) |
1.8 (0.071) |
204.4 (8.047) |
| Source: Hong Kong Observatory [7] | |||||||||||||
[edit] References
- ^ National Statistical Office[1]
- ^ National Economy of the Mongolian People's Republic (1921 - 1981), Ulaanbaatar 1981
- ^ GeoHive: Global Statistics, [2]
- ^ Population Statistics: historical demography [3]
- ^ http://www.reliefweb.int/library/documents/oxfamannex1-4.pdf
- ^ Sukhbaatar Aimag Statistical Office 2008 Annual Report
- ^ "Climatological Normals of Baruun-Urt". Hong Kong SAR Government. http://www.hko.gov.hk/wxinfo/climat/world/eng/asia/china/baruun-urt_e.htm. Retrieved 2011-01-05.
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Coordinates: 46°40′53″N 113°16′49″E / 46.68139°N 113.28028°E
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