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Mongolia is the most thinly peopled country on Earth, a plateau of steppe, desert and mountain between Russia and China, and a province there can be larger than a European country. The provinces are the way anyone in Mongolia says where something is.
The first tier of Mongolia: 21 provinces, each called an aimag, and the capital Ulaanbaatar, which is a municipality of its own and counted as a province here. The provinces are named for a mountain, a river or a people, and the group of words that recur (Gobi, Khangai, Altai) tell you where the province sits.
The capital and the two smallest provinces, Darkhan-Uul and Orkhon, are specks beside the rest, and the game gives them tap areas. Ulaanbaatar and Orkhon each have a neighbour that surrounds most of them.
The groups are the four economic regions Mongolian geography is taught in. They are a teaching convention rather than an administrative level, and the capital is counted with the central region. The provinces are the Mongolia Sums grouped, so the borders of the two maps match exactly.
Ömnögovi, the South Gobi, is the largest province, a desert on the Chinese border with the Gobi Gurvan Saikhan mountains in it.
Orkhon was cut from Bulgan in 1994 around the mining city of Erdenet. It is smaller than many sums, so the game gives it a tap area.
Ulaanbaatar is a municipality rather than a province, and Töv wraps round it. Nearly half of the country lives in it.
21 aimags, plus the capital Ulaanbaatar, which has the same standing.
The Mongolian word for a province. Each is split into sums, and each sum into bags.
The sums, which number 339 on this map including the districts of Ulaanbaatar. They are their own quiz.
The tier below this one is Mongolia Sums. For another country at this level, see Kazakhstan Regions.
