Ulaanbaatar

Mongolia

Ulaanbaatar is the capital and largest city of Mongolia. It has a population of 1.79 million, and is the coldest capital city in the world by average yearly temperature. The municipality is located in north central Mongolia at an elevation of about 1,300 metres in a valley on the Tuul River. The city was founded in 1639 as a nomadic Buddhist monastic centre, changing location 29 times, and was permanently settled at its modern location in 1778.

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Country: Mongolia
Population: 885,000
Latitude: 47.92° N
Longitude: 106.91° E

Which way is Ulaanbaatar from…

From Paris, Ulaanbaatar lies at 47° to the north-east, 7,048 km as the crow flies.

Paris	47° north-east	7,048 km
London	46° north-east	6,972 km
New York	359° north	10,159 km
Madrid	41° north-east	8,056 km
Rome	49° north-east	6,982 km
Montreal	360° north	9,627 km
Saint-Denis, Réunion	32° north-east	9,205 km

Bearings as the crow flies (great circle), measured from north. From somewhere else, the bearing changes: that’s the whole game.

Oùcécap’s take

Look due north from Montreal or New York and you are aiming at Ulaanbaatar: the shortest route passes almost over the North Pole, then drops down across Siberia. A flat map would send you due west instead. From London, aim north-east, at 46°, 6,972 km away, not east as the map suggests (93°). A landmark: the Mongolian capital lies on the same latitude as Vienna.