# Argalant

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District in Töv, Mongolia

District in Töv Province, Mongolia

Argalant District Аргалант сум ᠠᠷᠭᠠᠯᠠᠩᠲᠤᠰᠤᠮᠤ District Country Mongolia Province Töv Province Time zone UTC+8 (UTC + 8) Area code +976 (0) 2742

**Argalant** ([Mongolian](/source/Mongolian_language): Аргалант) is a [sum](/source/Sums_of_Mongolia) in [Mongolia](/source/Mongolia)'s [Töv Province](/source/T%C3%B6v_Province), just west of [Ulaanbaatar](/source/Ulaanbaatar). The area is 1210 square kilometres, of which about 160 square kilometres are farmland and 940 square kilometres are pasture. In 2005, the sum had 1892 inhabitants in 387 households.[1] Distance from sum center to Ulaanbaatar[2] is 82 km. The sum was founded in 1977, in the first year of Mongolia's second [Virgin Soils](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Virgin_Soils&action=edit&redlink=1) campaign.

## Administrative divisions

The district is divided into two [bags](/source/Bags_of_Mongolia), which are:[3]

- Argaliin Uul

- Khushuut

## Economy and Livestock

Main sectors of the economy are livestock herding, farming, trade and tourism. In 2004, the sum housed roughly 44,000 heads of livestock, including 18,000 [goats](/source/Goat), 20,000 [sheep](/source/Sheep), 2,200 heads of [cattle](/source/Cattle), 4,000 [horses](/source/Horse) and 6 [camels](/source/Bactrian_camel).[4]

## References

[Töv Aimag official website](http://www.tuv.gov.mn/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=33)[*[permanent dead link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot)*]

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [Aimag statistical office](http://202.131.5.91/webs/aimags/14/my%20webs/Hunam.pdf) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20080528115549/http://202.131.5.91/webs/aimags/14/my%20webs/Hunam.pdf) May 28, 2008, at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine) (in Mongolian)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** more precisely, to [Sükhbaatar Square](/source/S%C3%BCkhbaatar_Square)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Resident Population in Mongolia, by Bag/Khoroo"](https://www2.1212.mn/tablesdata1212.aspx?tbl_id=dt_nso_0300_004v5&ln=en). *Mongolian Statistical Information Service*. Retrieved 28 February 2025.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [National Statistical Office: Livestock count 2004](http://202.131.5.91/mal_tool/livestock2004.pdf) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20070615003152/http://202.131.5.91/mal_tool/livestock2004.pdf) June 15, 2007, at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine), p. 109 (in Mongolian)

v t e Districts of Töv Altanbulag Argalant Arkhust Batsümber Bayan Bayan-Önjüül Bayanchandmani Bayandelger Bayanjargalan Bayankhangai Bayantsagaan Bayantsogt Bornuur Büren Delgerkhaan Erdene Erdenesant Jargalant Lün Möngönmorit Öndörshireet Sergelen Sümber Tseel Ugtaal Zaamar Zuunmod (city)

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