Kharkhorin
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Kharkhorin () is a town and sum (district) center in Övörkhangai Province in Mongolia. It is well known for being near the capital of the Mongol Empire in the 13th century covering 23 million km2. The sum population was 13,828 (1994), 13,964 (2000), and 14,765 (2017). The population of Kharkhorin town itself was 14,765 in 2017 and covered an area of 20.5 km2.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Kharkhorin
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- View of Kharkhorin.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 300px
- Settlement.image_caption
- View of Kharkhorin
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- Mongolia
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- right
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- Location in Mongolia
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- 300
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Mongolia
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Övörkhangai
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Sum
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Kharkhorin
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Imperial
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2017
- Settlement.population_total
- 14,765
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Kharkhorin () is a town and sum (district) center in Övörkhangai Province in Mongolia. It is well known for being near the capital of the Mongol Empire in the 13th century covering 23 million km2. The sum population was 13,828 (1994), 13,964 (2000), and 14,765 (2017). The population of Kharkhorin town itself was 14,765 in 2017 and covered an area of 20.5 km2.
Kharkhorin is located at the lower end of the upper valley of the Orkhon River which is included within UNESCO's World Heritage Site Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape. The location marks the easternmost foothills of the Khangai Mountains, where they meet the rolling steppe of central Mongolia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kharkhorin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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