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Mongolia · electricity network
Mongolia power grid
OverWatts maps 2,138 km of Mongolia's electricity transmission network across 41 line segments and 0 substations, the 85th most-mapped grid of 153 countries. Its backbone is high voltage (220–379 kV), carrying 2,138 km — 100% of the mapped length, with the highest tagged voltage at 220 kV. That works out to 1.4 km per 1,000 km² of land — sparse OpenStreetMap coverage, ahead of 7% of mapped countries. It is connected to 2 neighbouring grids by 605 MW of existing cross-border transfer capacity.
OpenStreetMap coverage
This grades how completely OpenStreetMap has drawn Mongolia's network — not how much network exists. Large, sparsely-populated countries score low for geographic reasons alone, and every kilometre here is mapped length, so the totals are a floor rather than an operator-reported figure. 0% of segments carry a real line name and 0% an operator tag.
Mapped line length by voltage
- 220–379 kV2,138 km 100%
41 segments · a segment is credited to the country containing its midpoint, so a border-crossing line counts once, on one side.
Cross-border links from Mongolia
605 MW existing · capacities from the Global Transmission Database v0.1 (CC BY 4.0), existing as of 2023
On the interactive map
Load against the network
Where there is room to connect a new load depends on published hosting capacity, which most operators release only as their own map. OverWatts does not yet ingest those feeds, so these are the density measures the open data supports — generation and mapped demand against mapped network — not a headroom figure.
How Mongolia compares · mapped grid by country
- 1. People's Republic of China624,300 km
- 83. Cuba2,425 km
- 84. Slovakia2,207 km
- 85. Mongolia2,138 km
- 86. Cambodia2,080 km
- 87. Croatia2,078 km
Frequently asked
- How big is Mongolia's transmission network?
- OverWatts maps 2,138 km of transmission line in Mongolia, across 41 segments, plus 0 substations. This is mapped length from OpenStreetMap, not an operator-reported total — where OSM is incomplete the figure is a floor, never a ceiling.
- What voltage is Mongolia's grid?
- Most of the mapped network is high voltage (220–379 kV): 2,138 km of 2,138 km. The highest voltage tagged anywhere in the country is 220 kV.
- How complete is the grid map for Mongolia?
- Sparse — 1.4 km of mapped line per 1,000 km² of land, ahead of 7% of the 153 countries with any mapped grid. Coverage grades how completely OpenStreetMap has drawn the network, not how much network exists; large, sparsely-populated countries score low for geographic reasons alone.
- What interconnectors connect Mongolia to its neighbours?
- 605 MW of cross-border transfer capacity to Russia, China. Capacities are from the Global Transmission Database (v1.0, 2023).
Elsewhere in Mongolia
Network geometry: OpenStreetMap (ODbL) © OpenStreetMap contributors, ingested and measured by OverWatts · derived 2026-07-26. Counts every mapped line of 220 kV and above; the map layer draws the ≥380 kV backbone only, so it shows less than is measured here.