Jargalant

Jargalant

Province: Tuv Province
Centre of sum: Jargalant  , 160 km located from Zuunmod city.
Population: 5'981
Area: 1868 km2

Jargalant is a sum of Tuv Province in Mongolia. The territory of Jargalant soum belongs to Baatar khoshuu of Tusheet Khan province. Later, it was founded in 1927 as the Fertilization Plant and later became a Bayan-Ulziit soum and was established in 1957 by the Council of Ministers of the People's Republic of Mongolia as Jargalant soum.

It has a territory of 186800 hectares. Of which: 99000 hectares are pasture land, 38,000 hectares of land and 33,800 hectares of land are dominated by pine forest. Soums have an average annual precipitation of 200-250 mm of soddles and grasslands.
The population is 5981.

  • 135 km from Ulaanbaatar
  • It is located 160 km from the province center.