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8-573: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Khentii Province Khentii ( Mongolian : Хэнтий ) is one of the 21 aimags (provinces) of Mongolia , located in the east of the country. Its capital is Chinggis City . The aimag is named after the Khentii Mountains . It is best known as the birthplace, and likely final resting place, of Temüjin, otherwise known as Genghis Khan . The aimag borders with Russia ( Zabaykalsky Krai ) in
12-621: The landscape changes into the eastern Mongolian steppe plains. The mountain Burkhan Khaldun in the Khan Khentii Strictly Protected Area is considered sacred and assumed to be the birthplace of Genghis Khan . The Kherlen River originates South of the Burkhan Khaldun; the river then crosses the south of the aimag in the eastern direction after a detour through Töv. A little further east is
16-410: The north. The neighbouring aimags are Selenge in the northwest, Töv in the west, Govisümber in the southwest, Dornogovi in the south, Sükhbaatar in the southeast, and Dornod in the east. The border to Töv is divided by the city of Baganuur , an administrative exclave of Ulaanbaatar . The northwest of the aimag is covered by the eastern part of the Khentii Mountains ; towards the southeast,
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