Mongolia – Mongolia's capital is Ulaanbaatar

(Pronounced mong-goh-lee-uh and oo-lahn-bahtah)

To remember the capital of Mongolia, use the following mnemonic:

The mongrel likes to go earlier (Mongolia) to land a bargain tart (Ulaanbaatar).

Interesting facts about Ulaanbaatar:

- Nomadic Capital: Ulaanbaatar is the world’s coldest national capital, where a significant portion of the urban population still lives in traditional felt tents known as gers rather than permanent concrete apartments.

- Urban Monasteries: Despite decades of severe political upheaval and destruction during the twentieth century, the city preserves Gandantegchinlen Monastery, a historic spiritual center featuring a towering twenty-six-meter-tall indoor statue of Avalokiteshvara.

- Valley Crossroads: The city originated in the seventeenth century as a mobile monastic center that shifted locations dozens of times across the Mongolian steppe before permanently settling in its current sheltered river valley in 1778.