Sainshand

Sainshand is the administrative centre of Dornogobi aimag (http://gate1.pmis.gov.mn/dornogobi/), located 463 km to the south of Ulaanbaatar within the Gobi (desert/semi-desert) ecoregion. The municipal area has an overall population of 21000, including nearly 300 registered pastoral households. The overall population density in this aimag is 0.49 persons/km² (0.3 persons/km² outside the aimag centre). The region of Sainshand has become a major domestic pilgrimage and tourism centre in the past two decades, in large part attributable to local residents' ad hoc construction of sacred monuments and engagement in other ritual practices situating the pastoral landscape as naturally and culturally "pure".

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