Tsogttsetsii
Tsogttsetsii ( Mongolian Цогтцэций ) is a district (Sum) in the province of South Gobi ( Ömnö-Gobi-Aimag ) in southern Mongolia, right on the border with China. The area is 7,246 km². If a total of 1,990 people lived there in 1994, this number increased to 2,642 in 2009. 1,043 of them live in the center of this district.
The mining projects in the region will increase the population in Tsogttsetsii to 37,500 by 2020, according to estimates by the Mongolian Ministry for Building and Urban Development.
Economy and Infrastructure
The economic importance of this area is expressed in the hard coal opencast mining area Tawan Tolgoi , which is located 15 km southwest of the center of the district.
In connection with the UHG project in Tawan Tolgoi, the private company Energy Resources built an airport (UHG) north of the Sum Center in 2009, which Mongolian airlines use several times a week in addition to transporting UHG employees. A gravel road leads to the airport, while until now the coal extracted has been brought on sand tracks with heavy trucks through the Gobi desert to the Chinese border.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Infrastructure strategy of south region (PDF; 1.4 MB) Ministry of Construction and Urban Development of Mongolia. Retrieved April 11, 2010.
Coordinates: 43 ° 43 ′ 49 ″ N , 105 ° 34 ′ 21 ″ E