Ulaanbaatar

From Ulaanbaatar, situated to the north of the Gobi, it can easily look as if parts of the south are being integrated into China.

Around it were thousands of other plots, each with a ger in the middle, jammed together on the slopes overlooking Ulaanbaatar.

Biden said the country's term as chair will culminate in 2013 with a democratic summit in Ulaanbaatar.

I was from an ancient life in Outter Monogolia, Ulaanbaatar so to speak was the name of my born place.

Celebrations were hardly marred by rumblings of discontent back in the capital, Ulaanbaatar, from Mongolian politicians.

Oyu Tolgoi is the poster project for a national mining boom that sees Ulaanbaatar crawling with foreign miners and their investment bankers.

A young boy chases pigeons in the courtyard of a Buddhist monastery and temple in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia's capital.

Leggy models and a child acrobat wait offstage at a pop music concert in Ulaanbaatar.

A 13-year-old Buddhist monk has his head shaved by another monk at the Gandan Monastery in Ulaanbaatar on July 6, 2010.

The two addressed reporters after holding talks on a series of bilateral issues in Mongolia's capital city, Ulaanbaatar.

Ulaanbaatar (the capital) is a municipality with provincial status.

The prevalence of non-prescribed antibiotic use for young children was high in Ulaanbaatar.

A community-based cross-sectional survey was undertaken in 10 subdistricts in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia's capital.

How: Fly to the capital Ulaanbaatar via Beijing or Moscow; head in any direction.

Perched on the Mongolian steppe, around 1, 300m above sea level, Ulaanbaatar has often been described as the world's coldest capital city.

Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar (Ulan Bator) is 279 micrograms.

Two women, wearing wings to promote a perfume, walk along Peace Avenue in Ulaanbaatar on July 1.

There are more than half a million Ochkhuus and Norvoos living these days in UB, as Mongolians call Ulaanbaatar.

A Mongolian woman walks alone at night through the streets of Ulaanbaatar, on June 29, 2010.

In the vast open steppe outside Mongolia's capital Ulaanbaatar, the great emperor Genghis Khan is very much alive.

A child takes a spin on a ride at Ulaanbaatar's Buddhist monument park on June 27, 2010.

The government square of Mongolia's capital Ulaanbaatar.

Nearly half of all Mongolians live in cities; a third (about one million) live in the capital city of Ulaanbaatar.

Arshad Sayed, World Bank country manager in Ulaanbaatar, sees an admirable restraint in China's behavior toward Mongolia.

Three Mongolian men walk past an Armani store in Ulaanbaatar on June 29, 2010.

Here, an inmate peers through his cell at the boy's prison in Ulaanbaatar on June 28, 2010.

Teenagers swim in the Tuul River in Ulaanbaatar on June 27, 2010.

Young women ride the bus in Ulaanbaatar on Oct.

Before stopping in Japan, Biden spent a day in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

After the visit to Chengdu, Biden travels to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, and then to Tokyo and Sendai in Japan.

Soviet-Style Apartment Blocks in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

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