Capital City | Ulaanbaatar |
What time is it? | +1hr, begins last Saturday in March; ends last Saturday in September |
Capital location | 47 55 N, 106 55 E |
Capital - history | the name means "red hero" in Mongolian and honors national hero Damdin SUKHBAATAR, leader of the partisan army that with Soviet Red Army help, liberated Mongolia from Chinese occupation in the early 1920s |
Capital - time difference |
UTC+8 (13 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time) time zone note: Mongolia has two time zones - Ulaanbaatar Time (8 hours in advance of UTC) and Hovd Time (7 hours in advance of UTC) |