Saikhan-Ovoo is an urban-type settlement or village in Saikhan

Saikhan, Bulgan

Saikhan is a sum of Bulgan Province in northern Mongolia. Saikhan-Ovoo coal mine and settlement is 25 kn NW from the sum centre.Judoka Naidangiin Tüvshinbayar, Mongolia's first Olympic gold medalist, hails from Saikhan....

 sum (district) of Bulgan Province

Bulgan Province

Bulgan is one of the 21 aimags of Mongolia, located in northern Mongolia. Its capital is also named Bulgan.- Geography :The aimag is surrounded by the aimags Khövsgöl in the northwest, Arkhangai in the southwest, Övörkhangai in the south, Töv in the southeast, and Selenge in the northeast...

 in northern Mongolia

Mongolia

Mongolia is a landlocked country in East and Central Asia. It is bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south, east and west. Although Mongolia does not share a border with Kazakhstan, its western-most point is only from Kazakhstan's eastern tip. Ulan Bator, the capital and largest...

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Saikhan-Ovoo population is 500 (or 124 household

Household

The household is "the basic residential unit in which economic production, consumption, inheritance, child rearing, and shelter are organized and carried out"; [the household] "may or may not be synonymous with family"....

s) (end of 2006).

Geography

Saikhan-Ovoo is placed close to the Saikhan-Ovoo mountain, 25 km North-West from Saikhan

Saikhan, Bulgan

Saikhan is a sum of Bulgan Province in northern Mongolia. Saikhan-Ovoo coal mine and settlement is 25 kn NW from the sum centre.Judoka Naidangiin Tüvshinbayar, Mongolia's first Olympic gold medalist, hails from Saikhan....

 sum centre and
100 km West from Bulgan Province

Bulgan Province

Bulgan is one of the 21 aimags of Mongolia, located in northern Mongolia. Its capital is also named Bulgan.- Geography :The aimag is surrounded by the aimags Khövsgöl in the northwest, Arkhangai in the southwest, Övörkhangai in the south, Töv in the southeast, and Selenge in the northeast...

 capital Bulgan

Bulgan (city)

Bulgan is a town, administrative centre of Bulgan province of Mongolia. Bulgan sum has a population of 11,984 , 12,323, town proper has a population of 11,198...

 city.

Economy

Saikhan-Ovoo coal mine has estimated coal

Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams. The harder forms, such as anthracite coal, can be regarded as metamorphic rock because of later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure...

resource of up to 190 million tonnes.