Urga

/ ˈɜːɡə /

noun

1. the former name (until 1924) of Ulan Bator

Example Sentences

In the spring of 1987, at Lincoln Center Theater, he directed a multiweek workshop of a new version of the show called “The Race to Urga.”

From New York Times

When taxi driver Urga Adunga saw a duck and her nine ducklings stuck in traffic in Calgary, he knew he had to act.

From Time

And both here, and for 200 m. south of Urga, streams are frequent, and grass grows more or less abundantly.

From Project Gutenberg

Besides this High Priest at Urga, there are over a hundred smaller incarnations—Gigens, as they are called—and these saintly beings possess unlimited means of plundering their votaries.

From Project Gutenberg

Not long after the Russian railroad across Siberia was opened, Mr. Bates traveled along it to Irkutsk, and thence by sledge along the old post road to Urga in Mongolia.

From Project Gutenberg