Mongolia
- Arkhangai: from the Mongolian: Ar (north; back side of a mountai) and Khangai Mountains
- Bayan-Ölgii: from the Mongolian: Bayan (rich), Ölgii (cradleregion), a province later built in the 1940s especially for some Kazakh tribes migrated to Mongolia in the early 1910s for land.
- Bayankhongor:
- Bulgan: from the Mongolian: Darkhan (great) and Uul (mountain)
- Darkhan-Uul: from the Mongolian: Darkhan (great) and Uul (mountain)
- Dornod: from the Mongolian: Dornod (the east)
- Dornogovi: from the Mongolian: Dorno (east) and Gobi desert (Govi in Mongolian)
- Dundgovi: from the Mongolian: Dund (middle) and Gobi desert (Govi in Mongolian)
- Govi-Altai: after the Gobi desert (Govi in Mongolian) and the Altai Mountains
- Govisümber:
- Khentii: after the Khentii Mountains
- Khovd: after Khovd River
- Khövsgöl: after Khövsgöl Lake
- Ömnögovi: from the Mongolian: Ömnö (South) and Gobi desert (Govi in Mongolian)
- Orkhon: after the Orkhon River
- Övörkhangai: from the Mongolian: Övör (south;front side of a mountain) and Khangai Mountains
- Selenge: after the Selenge River
- Sükhbaatar: after Damdin Sükhbaatar, a Mongolian military leader in the revolution of independence.
- Töv: from Mongolian: Töv (center)
- Uvs: after Uvs Lake
- Zavkhan: after Zavkhan River
- Ulan Bator: from Mongolian: Ulaan (red), baatar (hero)
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