Main Geographical Region of Mongolia based on Mongolia’s National Atlas (Akademiya Nauk SSSR & Akademiya Nauk MNR 1990).
They are used for locality data of plant records within the FloraGREIF database.
All geographical names are transcribed from the Mongolian original spelling acc. to Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. (1997) and UNGEGN: United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (2003) except for internationally accepted names.
data compiled by: A. Zemmrich