You can call Boston, New York, Paris, Singapore, Bejing, and, I expect, Ulan Bator, Mongolia.

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Intercontinental flying is direct so long as you are coming from Havana or Ulan Bator.

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Here, in this Ottawa winter, it is dismayingly easy to recall claims that Canada's capital city is the coldest after Ulan Bator.

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The Mongolian stock exchange, located in a lovely old cinema in Ulan Bator, has been transformed into a meeting place for international bankers.

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Mr McGregor's producers were just as anxious about pot-holes in Ulan Bator and freaks of nature as they were about kidnapping or sabotage.

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The country's winter temperatures, however, are one of only two differences between homeless children in Ulan Bator and those, say, in Manila or Rio de Janeiro.

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The UN representative in Ulan Bator told me that of all the countries in the world he's lived in, Mongolia is unique in having more girls than boys at school.

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Even the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is about to welcome Mongolia into the fold although Ulan Bator is twice as close to the Pacific as it is to the North Sea.

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