Chowd-Aimag

This article covers the Mongolian province. For further meanings see Chowd .

Khovd-Aimag Ховд Аймаг
Coat of arms of the Chowd Aimag Flag of the Chowd Aimag
The ruins of a fortress in Khovd
Founded:	1931
Main place:	Chowd
Surface:	76,100 km²
Residents:	85,325 (2016)
Population density:	1.14 inhabitants / km²
Telephone code:	+976 (0) 143
License Plate:	ХО_
ISO 3166-2 :	MN-043
Offic. Website:	www.hovd.gov.mn/
Location of the Khovd aimag in Mongolia

Coordinates: 47 ° 0 '  N , 93 ° 0'  E

Khovd-aimag ( Mongolian Ховд Аймаг ) is an aimag (province) of Mongolia , and is located in the west of the country. The capital also bears the name Khovd .

traffic

The airport of the city of Khovd (ZMKD / HVD) has two runways (one paved) and is served by regular flights to and from Ulan Bator .

population

The Chowd-Aimag is populated by a large number of different ethnic groups, each with a different tradition, song material, costume, language or dialect. In addition to the Oirat ethnic groups (Dsachtschin, Torguud, Altai-Urianchai, Ööld, Mjangad, Dörwöd), Western Chalcha and Kazakhs can also be found. All of these ethnic groups have their own settlement areas and rarely marry into another. Outside the city of Khovd, where all the peoples named in the table settle, these are distributed as follows.

The ethnic groups of the Chowd-Aimag and their settlement areas

Ethnicity	Settlement areas (sum)
Dzachchin	Altai, Möst, Dsereg, Manchan, Üjentsch, Tsetseg
Goalie	Bulgan
Altai Urianchai	Monk chairchan, Duut
Oil	Erdenebüren
Myangad	Myangad
Dörwöd	Mjangad, Erdenebüren, Dörgön
West Chalcha	Tschandman, Darwi, Tsetseg
Kazakhs	Bujant, Bulgan, Erdenebüren, Chowd

Administrative structure

The Sum des Chowd-Aimag (English spelling of names)

The Aimag administrative center Chowd is geographically located in Bujant-Sum, but is managed independently. The administrative center of the neighboring Chowd-Sum is also called Chowd, which can easily lead to confusion for those unfamiliar with the area. The other sum centers also bear the name of the respective sum.

The sum of the Chowd-Aimag

Sum	Mongolian	Population 2007 est.	Sum center population	Area (km²)	Density (/ km²)	Distance from Khovd city (km)
Altai	Алтай	3.234	767	13,144	0.25	315
Bujant	Буянт	3.533	1.568	3.759	0.96	25th
Bulgan	Булган	9,634	3.171	8.104	1.19	425
Chowd	Ховд	4,589	719	2.830	1.63	32
Darwi	Дарви	2,596	579	5.604	0.47	210
Dörgön	Дөргөн	3.015	659	4.128	0.73	102
Dsereg	Зэрэг	3.078	796	2,503.16	1.23	141
You	Дуут	2.094	502	2.146	0.98	75
Erdenebüren	Эрдэнэбүрэн	3.372	696	2.772	1.22	61
Manchan	Манхан	4,526	1.258	4,330	1.05	80
Myangad	Мянгад	3,662	713	3,258.50	1.12	41
Monk chairchan	Мөнххайрхан	2.554	744	2,336.70	1.06	155
May	Мөст	3,577	809	3,927	0.91	180
Tschandman	Чандмань	3.155	689	6.016	0.52	160
Tsetseg	Цэцэг	2.531	570	3,492.84	0.72	230
Üjentsch	Үенч	4,760	1.452	7,479.78	0.64	365

literature

• Remote Blue Khovd (Cholyn Zencher Chowd), Photo album, On the occasion of 240 years anniversary of Khovd city . Chowd, 2002.
• Hermann Consten: Mongolian pastures. In the kingdom of the Chalcha. 2 volumes, Reimer, Berlin, 1919/1920.
• M Amgalan: The cultural monuments of Western Mongolia. Monsudar, 2000.
• C. Goldstein & CM Beall: Die Nomaden der Mongolei DA Verlag, Nuremberg, 1994.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Khovd Aimag Statistical Office 2007 Annual Report
2. ↑ Khovd Aimak Statistical Office. 1983–2008 Dynamics Data Sheet ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ( MS Excel ; 556 kB) 
3. ↑ Hovd Aimag English Language Information Page ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

Commons : Chowd-Aimag  - Collection of images, videos and audio files