Mongolian place names are written in many ways: Khovsgol, Khuvsgul, Hovsgol, Khövsgöl or Хөвсгөл are the same aimag. mongolmaps gives every unit one code and knows its other names.
The codes
pcode is unique across all levels:
| Unit | pcode | NSO code | ISO 3166-2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mongolia | MN |
0 |
MN |
| Western region | MNR1 |
1 |
|
| Khovd aimag | MN84 |
184 |
MN-043 |
| Jargalant soum (Khovd) | MN8401 |
18401 |
|
| Ulaanbaatar | MN11 |
511 |
MN-1 |
| Bayangol district | MN1107 |
51107 |
|
| Bayangol, 1st khoroo | MN110751 |
5110751 |
pcodes match the humanitarian Common Operational Dataset (COD) and
are the NSO codes without their leading region digit.
mn_codes() lists them all:
mn_codes("aimag")
#> # A tibble: 22 × 16
#> pcode name name_en name_mn name_mns level type number iso_code nso_code
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <int> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 MN11 Ulaanbaa… Ulaanb… Улаанб… Ulaanba… aimag capi… NA MN-1 511
#> 2 MN21 Dornod Dornod Дорнод Dornod aimag aimag NA MN-061 421
#> 3 MN22 Sukhbaat… Sukhba… Сүхбаа… Sükhbaa… aimag aimag NA MN-051 422
#> 4 MN23 Khentii Khentii Хэнтий Khentii aimag aimag NA MN-039 423
#> 5 MN41 Tuv Tuv Төв Töv aimag aimag NA MN-047 341
#> 6 MN42 Govisumb… Govisu… Говьсү… Govisüm… aimag aimag NA MN-064 342
#> 7 MN43 Selenge Selenge Сэлэнгэ Selenge aimag aimag NA MN-049 343
#> 8 MN44 Dornogovi Dornog… Дорног… Dornogo… aimag aimag NA MN-063 344
#> 9 MN45 Darkhan-… Darkha… Дархан… Darkhan… aimag aimag NA MN-037 345
#> 10 MN46 Umnugovi Umnugo… Өмнөго… Ömnögovi aimag aimag NA MN-053 346
#> # ℹ 12 more rows
#> # ℹ 6 more variables: parent_pcode <chr>, region_pcode <chr>,
#> # aimag_pcode <chr>, soum_pcode <chr>, area_km2 <dbl>, has_geometry <lgl>
mn_codes("bag", within = "Baganuur")
#> # A tibble: 5 × 16
#> pcode name name_en name_mn name_mns level type number iso_code nso_code
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <int> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 MN110151 1-r kh… 1-r kh… 1-р хо… 1-r kho… bag khor… 1 NA 5110151
#> 2 MN110153 2-r kh… 2-r kh… 2-р хо… 2-r kho… bag khor… 2 NA 5110153
#> 3 MN110155 3-r kh… 3-r kh… 3-р хо… 3-r kho… bag khor… 3 NA 5110155
#> 4 MN110157 4-r kh… 4-r kh… 4-р хо… 4-r kho… bag khor… 4 NA 5110157
#> 5 MN110159 5-r kh… 5-r kh… 5-р хо… 5-r kho… bag khor… 5 NA 5110159
#> # ℹ 6 more variables: parent_pcode <chr>, region_pcode <chr>,
#> # aimag_pcode <chr>, soum_pcode <chr>, area_km2 <dbl>, has_geometry <lgl>Bags and villages (tosgon) have codes and names but no public
boundary (has_geometry is FALSE).
Matching names
mn_match() turns names or codes into pcodes (or any
other column):
mn_match(c("Khuvsgul", "Hovsgol", "Kh\u00f6vsg\u00f6l", "\u0425\u04e9\u0432\u0441\u0433\u04e9\u043b", "MN-041", "267"))
#> [1] "MN67" "MN67" "MN67" "MN67" "MN67" "MN67"
mn_match(c("MN84", "MN8401"), to = "name_mn")
#> [1] "Ховд" "Жаргалант"It ignores case, punctuation and words such as “aimag”, “province”, “soum” or “district” – but uses them as hints when a name is shared:
mn_match(c("Sukhbaatar", "Sukhbaatar district", "Sukhbaatar soum"), within = c(NA, NA, "Selenge"))
#> [1] "MN22" "MN1119" "MN4301"Small typos are matched and reported:
mn_match("Ulanbaatr")
#> ℹ Matched 1 value approximately; please check:
#> • Ulanbaatr → Ulaanbaatar (MN11)
#> [1] "MN11"When a name is shared by several units, mn_match()
returns NA and says which ones; add within to
choose:
mn_match("Bayan-Uul", level = "soum")
#> Warning: 1 value matches more than one unit and became "NA":
#> • Bayan-Uul: Bayan-Uul (MN2110, Dornod); Bayan-Uul (MN8207, Govi-Altai)
#> ℹ Use `within` (for example the aimag) to choose one.
#> [1] NA
mn_match("Bayan-Uul", level = "soum", within = "Dornod")
#> [1] "MN2110"Transliteration
mn_translit() romanises Cyrillic with a fixed table:
x <- c("\u04e8\u0432\u04e9\u0440\u0445\u0430\u043d\u0433\u0430\u0439", "\u0421\u04af\u0445\u0431\u0430\u0430\u0442\u0430\u0440")
mn_translit(x)
#> [1] "Övörkhangai" "Sükhbaatar"
mn_translit(x, to = "nso")
#> [1] "Uvurkhangai" "Sukhbaatar"The default is the national standard MNS 5217:2012;
to = "nso" gives the plain-ASCII spellings used in NSO
English tables.