Nomrog, protected area in Dornod aimag

Nomrog, strictly prohibited area, covers the remote and uninhabited far eastern tip of Mongolia. The area encompasses 311,205 hectares of land along the state border in Sumber soum of Dornod aimag. Ecologically distinct from-the rest of Mongolia, this preserve includes the westernmost end of Khyangan mountain range, which extends into Mongolia from Manchuria, China. The area is relatively wet and one-fifth of the area is forested by small groves of Scotch pine, white birch and willow. Manchurian flora and fauna, which occur nowhere else in Mongolia, are found here, including the Ussurian moose, black-napped oriole, white-breasted rockthush, and great black water snake.