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C. Khovd aimag: Present State and Problems of Development and<br />

Cultivation Agriculture -An Overview- (J. Hartwig)<br />

7. Socioeconomic and EcologicalBaselineInformation of Khovd aimag<br />

Khovd aimag is one of the biggest provinces of Mongolia. It is located in the western part of<br />

the country and is the economic center of the western aimags. It borders Bayan-Ulgii aimag in<br />

the west, Uvs in the north, Zavkhan in the east and Govi-Altai in the south-east. In the southwest<br />

it has a common border with the Autonomous Region of Xingjiang/ PR China. Khovd<br />

aimag covers about 7.6 million ha of land consisting of desert-steppe, mountain-steppe and<br />

high-mountains of the Altai Mountain Range (see Map 3). There are only afew forests in<br />

Khovd aimag.<br />

The surface of 7.6 million ha consists of 6.577.890 ha of agricultural, mainly pasture land,<br />

33.311 ha are covered by settlements and roads, 16.295 ha are reserved for special use,<br />

644.366 ha is forest area, 255.215 ha are lakes and rivers, and 4.637 ha are kept as reserve<br />

land.<br />

Khovd khot is located at an altitude of 1.405 m at the lower reach of Buyant river, which<br />

originates from the Mongolian Altai Mountains. The distance between Khovd and<br />

Ulaanbaatar is about 1.400 km (Nyamdavaa, G. et al, 2006, p.6).<br />

Map3:GeographicalEcologicalZones of Mongolia<br />

Source: Geographical Atlas, 2003<br />

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