Sükhbaatar (Mongolian: Сүхбаатар, Russian: Сухэ-Батор) is the capital of Selenge Province in northern Mongolia, on the Orkhon river.

[1] The city was founded in 1940 and named after the Mongolian revolutionary leader Damdin Sükhbaatar.

The first railway station on the Russian side of the border is Naushki.

Taxis offer service within Sükhbaatar as well as neighbouring Sums, like Shaamar (10,000–15,000 tugs for whole car or 2,000 per person), you can also get a taxi to Darkhan for 8,000–10,000 tugs per person.

Sükhbaatar has a dry-winter warm-summer continental climate (Köppen Dwb).