Ulaanbaatar in a sentence

At a modern-looking new community center in the Bayankhoshuu ger district in northwest Ulaanbaatar one afternoon, I met Bilguun Ankhbayar, 19. Boyish but tall, Ankhbayar was a city kid.

He had a decent job as a forklift operator at the MCS Coca-Cola Factory, a major food-processing plant in Ulaanbaatar.

Last August, he made a cardinal Italian missionary Giorgio Marengo, who as apostolic prefect of Ulaanbaatar is the most senior Catholic official in Mongolia.

Pope Francis attends a welcome ceremony at the bishop’s house during his Apostolic Journey, in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia September 1, 2023.

Pope Francis hailed religion’s power to resolve conflict and promote peace Sunday, on his final full day in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar for a visit that has seen him seek to build bridges with neighbouring China.

Vice President Kamala Harris brokered a new air travel deal with the Mongolian government, establishing the first direct flights between Ulaanbaatar and the US starting next year.

Wakaba Tomita took gold to cap off a dominant International Judo Federation (IJF) Ulaanbaatar Grand Slam for Japan.

Although this by no means will replace China as a major buyer, in the long run, it does behoove Ulaanbaatar to secure alternative destinations for its exports.

Eventually, race directors summoned a driver to take her back to Ulaanbaatar - but did not book her a hotel or a flight back to the US.

Since Mongolia’s democratization in the 1990s, ties have remained strong; presidential-level visits between Ulaanbaatar and Moscow have often led to a major upgrade in bilateral ties.

ULAANBAATAR, 14 March (BelTA) – Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Aleinik has arrived in Mongolia on an official visit, BelTA has learned.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a joint press conference with Mongolia's Foreign Minister Batmunkh Battsetseg, unseen, in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024.

The 8th regular meeting of Mongolia-Kazakhstan intergovernmental commission will take place in Ulaanbaatar in April 2020, according to him.

A quarantine was put in place after the couple’s deaths, when lab results confirmed the couple had the plague, and nearly 150 people were isolated or quarantined, including arriving from the region in Ulaanbaatar, the country’s capital.

Gandan Monastery atop the hill in Ulaanbaatar was the sole symbol of a clarion call to the Mongols who suffered hardships during the early years of transition from Soviet style of the polity to a democratic pattern of governance.

Janchiv Oyungerel is a founder and Board Member of the British School of Ulaanbaatar.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the President of Mongolia Khaltmaagiin Battulga, jointly unveiled a statue of Lord Buddha at Gandan Monastery in Ulaanbaatar through video-conferencing from Prime Minister Modi's residence in New Delhi.

So now the Kazakh capital - the second-coldest in the world, after Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia - is known as Nur Sultan City.

Opera caught on in Ulaanbaatar.

Other memorable experiences include visits to the beautiful Tibetan-style Gandan Buddhist monastery, meeting nomadic herdsmen in the Hogno Khan countryside and shopping for cashmere in Ulaanbaatar.