![]() ![]() Its residents are surprisingly urbanized. Ulaan Baatar means "Red Hero," the name given it in 1924 and a reference to the great Mongolian liberator Suhee Baatar. About 1.4 million people (almost half the country's population) make their home here, almost double what there were 15 years ago. Around the city are for four sacred mountains: Tsetseegun Mountain to the south, Songino Mountain to the west, Bayanzurkh Mountain to the east and Chingeleti Mountain to the north. ![]() The capital and only major city in Mongolia, it is situated at an elevation of 1,350 meter and spreads out over a wide area in a valley the Tuul River and among the foothills of the Bogd mountains. Ulaan Baatar is a flat, windy city made up of rows of Russian-built buildings, large open spaces, wide, dusty boulevards, ger suburbs and construction projects.
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