Mörön (city)
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Mörön (Mongolian: Мөрөн, river; also Murun, Moron, Muren) is the administrative center of Khövsgöl Aimag (province) in northern Mongolia. Before 1933, Khatgal had been the aimag capital.
Mörön has a hospital, a museum, a theatre, a post office, several schools and kindergartens, as well as one of the biggest outdoor markets in the country. The town has its own power station. Additionally, it has been connected to the Mongolian central power grid in 2004.
The settlement stems from the Möröngiin Khuree monastery which had been founded in 1809/11 on the banks of the Delgermörön river. By the beginning of the 20th century, the monastery had grown to a population of about 1300 lamas, but was destroyed in 1937. A small new monastery Danzadarjaa Khiid has been erected on the western edge of the town in the 1990s.
[edit] Population
| 1959 est. |
1969 census |
1979 census |
1989 census |
1994 est. |
2000 census |
2005 est. |
2006 est. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9,000 | 11,200 | 16,500 | 21,300 | 27,230 | 28,147 | 35,872 | 35,500 |
In 2007, the population was slightly below 40,000 inhabitants, most of them living in the ger quarters.
[edit] Airport
The Mörön Airport (ICAO:ZMMN, IATA: MXV) has two runways, one paved and one gravel. It is served by regular flights from and to Ulan Bator. Some flights to the western Aimags may also stop over here.
[edit] References
- ^ National Statistical Office[1]
- ^ National Economy of the Mongolian People's Republic (1921 - 1981), Ulaanbaatar 1981
- ^ , GeoHive: Global Statistics, [2]
- ^ Population Statistics: historical demography [3]
- ^ M. Nyamaa, Khövsgöl aimgiin lavlakh toli, Ulaanbaatar 2001,passim
- ^ Rural Poverty Reduction Programme: official site
- ^ Ministry of Health of Mongolia. National Center for Health Development. Health Indicators 2006[4]
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