The Orkhon Valley is a valley along the Orkhon River in central Mongolia, about 320 kilometers west of Ulaanbaatar. Inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2004 as the Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape, the designated area covers 121,967 hectares with a further 61,044-hectare buffer zone and is recognized for representing more than two millennia of nomadic pastoral tradition along the river. For centuries the valley served as the seat of imperial power on the steppe, and it holds the eighth century Orkhon inscriptions erected under Bilge Khan of the Gokturk Empire near the sacred mountain of Otuken.
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The Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape sprawls along the banks of the Orkhon River in Central Mongolia, some 320 km west from the capital Ulaanbaatar.
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