Map of Mongolia

Mongolia is located in Asia. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 46.0° N, 105.0° E. Mongolia is landlocked, enclosed on every side by its 2 neighbours — China and Russia — with no coastline of its own. Within Asia, a continent of 49 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Mongolia is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Landlocked Mongolia is surrounded by the following 2 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Mongolia covers about 1,564,110 km² (603,906 sq mi). That makes it the 18th-largest country in the world by area and the 7th-largest in Asia, larger by area than 42 of the continent’s 49 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 3,544,835, the 132nd-largest in the world and the 41st-largest in Asia, accounting for about 0.1% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Mongolia has an average population density of about 2 people per km². Among the 49 countries of Asia it stands 41st by population and 7th by area.

The seat of government is Ulan Bator, and the official currency is the Mongolian tögrög (MNT, ₮), and the main official language is Mongolian. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes time zones UTC+07:00 and UTC+08:00.

Mongolia carries the ISO country codes MN and MNG, dials on the international calling code +976 and uses the .mn internet domain.

Mongolia shares its land borders with 2 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are China (capital Beijing, about 1,408,280,000 people) and Russia (capital Moscow, about 146,028,325 people).

By area, Mongolia is larger than 0 of these neighbours and smaller than 2 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 46.0° N, 105.0° E and opens at zoom level 4, framing Mongolia within Asia. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Ulan Bator. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Mongolia lies about 5,106 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. As a landlocked country, every direction from its borders leads onto neighbouring land rather than the open sea.

Mongolia spans 2 time zones, from UTC+07:00 to UTC+08:00, reflecting the spread of its territory across the globe. Each is expressed as an offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC); where a country covers several zones, the official local time can differ from one part of it to another.

The official currency is the Mongolian tögrög (MNT, ₮).

The official language is Mongolian, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +976 and websites commonly use the .mn internet domain.

In short, Mongolia is a landlocked country in Asia, sharing land borders with 2 countries. Its capital is Ulan Bator. Mongolia has a population of about 3,544,835 and covers around 1,564,110 km² (603,906 sq mi), ranking it 132nd in the world by population and 18th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Mongolia.

The flag of Mongolia is composed of three equal vertical bands of red, blue and red, with the national emblem — the Soyombo — in gold centered in the hoist-side red band.

The flag of Mongolia is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.