Selenge Province

Template:Short description Template:Infobox settlement Selenge (Template:Langx) is one of the 21 aimags (provinces) of Mongolia, located in the north of the country. The name is derived from the Selenge river. The capital is Sükhbaatar.

The province of Darkhan-Uul, and its capital Darkhan, is located as an enclave inside Selenge.

History

In 1994, a portion of its area was taken out to form the Darkhan-Uul Province.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

The province has a total forest area of 19,000 km².<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

The Sums of Selenge aimag<ref name="Stat2008">Selenge Aimag Statistical Office. Selenge Aimag Sums Review 2000-2008 Template:Webarchive</ref>
Sum	Selenge	Population (2000)	Population (2002)	Population (2004)	Population (2006)	Population (2008)	Area (km²)<ref name="site">Official site of the Selenge aimag Template:Webarchive</ref>	Density (/km²)
Altanbulag	Template:Lang	3,489	4,003	3,783	4,255	4,545	2100.30	2.16
Baruunbüren	Template:Lang	2,939	2,430	2,430	2,378	2,702	2814.54	0.96
Bayangol	Template:Lang	5,391	5,015	4,264	4,512	5,028	1976.28	2.54
Javkhlant	Template:Lang	1,767	1,921	1,838	1,704	1,827	1189.70	1.54
Khüder	Template:Lang	1,799	1,772	1,838	1,936	2,078	2838.65	0.73
Khushaat	Template:Lang	1,406	1,679	1,946	1,654	1,585	2010.15	0.79
Mandal	Template:Lang	23,964	22,645	22,864	22,975	23,646	4843.73	4.88
Orkhon	Template:Lang	2,817	2,467	2,106	2,006	2,165	1306.27	1.66
Orkhontuul	Template:Lang	3,760	4,016	3,398	3,248	2,952	2940.83	1.00
Sant	Template:Lang	2,062	2,050	2,033	2,054	2,056	1387.06	1.48
Saikhan	Template:Lang	8,737	8,795	8,282	8,100	8,285	1311.87	6.32
Shaamar	Template:Lang	4,809	4,157	3,783	3,944	4,158	671.91	6.19
Sükhbaatar^*	Template:Lang	22,374	21,076	20,025	19,916	19,626	45.35	432.77
Tsagaannuur	Template:Lang	4,153	4,221	3,919	4,005	4,257	3814.72	1.12
Tüshig	Template:Lang	1,899	1,725	1,608	1,552	1,420	2492.82	0.57
Yeröö	Template:Lang	6,077	5,677	5,531	5,630	5,792	8203.51	0.71
Züünbüren	Template:Lang	2,507	2,226	2,373	2,201	2,468	1204.94	2.05
Züünkharaa	Template:Lang	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

^* The aimag capital Sükhbaatar.

In 2018, the province contributed to 2.12% of the total national GDP of Mongolia.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>