Mongolia's easternmost national park, protecting Great Khingan steppe and forest at the Chinese border.
Numrug National Park
Numrug National Park is a protected area in the far eastern corner of Mongolia, situated in the westernmost foothills of the Great Khingan range in Dornod Province. It rests along the international boundary with Inner Mongolia, China, making it the easternmost point of the Mongolian state. The park preserves a transitional landscape where the forested slopes of the Khingan meet the open steppes and river valleys that characterize this part of eastern Mongolia.
The park's identity is shaped by its rivers, especially the Degee, Numrug, and Khalkh rivers, which flow through and converge within its boundaries. These waterways carve through valleys that support a mix of meadow, forest, and steppe vegetation, creating a diverse habitat mosaic uncommon elsewhere in the country. The region sits at the junction of two major ecological regions, giving the park a transitional character that distinguishes it from Mongolia's more familiar grassland and desert reserves.
Declared a protected area in 1992, Numrug represents one of Mongolia's efforts to safeguard the natural heritage of its eastern frontier, where ecosystems differ markedly from the better-known central and western parks. Its combination of mountain woodland, river valleys, and open steppe gives the park a distinctive geographic profile and ecological importance within Mongolia's national park system.
