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Global Sourcebook for International Data Management
by Graham Rhind
For supplementary information, see links to post office home pages here , to postal code pages here and to other personal name and addressing issues pages here .
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(where , indicates the decimal separator and a space the thousands separator)
12 languages are spoken in Mongolia. The national language is Mongolian (Khlakha), spoken by about 90% of the population. There are 64 000 speakers of Buriat ; 35 000 Mandarin -speakers; 205 000 Kalmyk-Oirat -speakers; 120 000 Kazakh -speakers and 27 000 Tuvin -speakers.
Mongolians have two given names and no family name. The first given name derives from the father’s name and usually ends with -iin or-yn. The second given name is the name used in mailings and on address blocks. It is usually written in capital letters on the envelope.
Women retain their names upon marriage.
Tables of names can be acquired: given names , surnames/family names , family name prefixes , forms of address , job titles
Note: This section last updated 28th April 2020
Addresses may be descriptive, include directions such as “100 metres northwest of the Central Square” and may include street and/or district names. The 9 districts (дүүрэг, düüreg) of Ulan Bator, which are named, are split into 151 sub-districts (хороо, khoroo or horoo) which are numbered. Khoroolol (хороолол, horoolol) are neighbourhoods and are also numbered. They may appear in addresses in this way:
12th Room, 37th Building Peace Avenue Khan Uul District, 4th Khoroo
Or in the opposite format:
4th Khoroo, Khan Uul District Peace Avenue, 37th Building, 12th Room
The order in which the elements are written is not fixed.
The postal code is written to the right of the settlement name.
A table containing information about the relevant position of elements within address blocks can be acquired
Note: This section last updated 25th December 2017
Postal codes have these formats:
99999
99999[-]9999
The first digit indicates the region. The second indicates the province or, for Ulaanbaatar, the district.
For urban areas, digits 3 to 5 indicate the block or delivery zone code. Digits 6 to 9, if present, indicate a single delivery point. For rural areas digits 3 to 5 indicate the sub-district or village.
Metadata containing postal code formatting rules, exceptions and regular expressions can be acquired
\A([11-18,21-23,41-46,48,61-65,67,81-85][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]|[11-18,21-23,41-46,48,61-65,67,81-85][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9](-)[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9])\Z
Note: This section last updated 27th May 2015
Refer to Exonyms in Mongolia for full lists of place names in Mongolia in other languages.
Alternate place name forms/postal code tables can be acquired at http://www.grcdi.nl/settlements.htm
Other language place name data can be acquired at http://www.grcdi.nl/otherlanguageplace.htm
Note: This section last updated 25th December 2017
Mongolia has 21 provinces (aymguud , singular - aymag) and 1 municipality (Hot, plural hotuud; shown in the list below with an asterisk):
Province | Postal codes |
Arhangay | 65 |
Bayanhongor | 64 |
Bayan-Olgiy | 83 |
Bulgan | 63 |
Darhan Uul | 45 |
Dornod | 21 |
Dornogovi | 44 |
Dundgovi | 48 |
Dzavhan | 81 |
Govi-Altay | 82 |
Govi-Sumber | 42 |
Hentiy | 23 |
Hovd | 84 |
Hovsgol | 67 |
Omnogovi | 46 |
Orhon | 61 |
Ovorhangay | 62 |
Selenge | 43 |
Suhbaatar | 22 |
Tov | 41 |
Ulaanbaatar * | 11-18 |
Uvs | 85 |
Note: This section last updated 9th February 2023
Mongolian fixed geographic numbers have a length of between 9 and 10 digits when called from abroad. Mobile numbers have a total length of 8 digits with one of these area codes: 50, 55, 60, 66, 69, 80, 811, 816, 8181, 8188, 83, 85-86, 88-89, 90-91, 93-99.
Every effort is made to keep this resource updated. If you find any errors, or have any questions or requests, please don't hesitate to contact the author.
All information copyright Graham Rhind 2024. Any information used should be acknowledged and referenced.