Information about Mongolia
Prior to Mongolia's conversion to a free market and democratic nation in 1990, a relationship was started between Mongolia's capital city, Ulaanbaatar, and Denver. This occurred when the first Mongolian students were sent to the United States in 1989. Two of the students that came that year attended the Colorado School of Mines.
Shortly thereafter a Colorado nonprofit, the Colorado-Mongolia Project was formed to both promote better relations and to engineer a Sister City, or as Mongolians call it a Brother City, relationship.
From the City and County of Denver and the metro Denver area Mongolian business, cultural and educational exchanges flourished. Denver law firms began working in Mongolia, university programs were forged, particularly with the University of Colorado at Denver, and then Denver headquartered mining and mining equipment companies began actively operating in Mongolia. The Denver Art Museum put on a trail blazing and highly successful Mongolian art exhibit with other cultural and art exchanges to follow. Along the way these two early Mongolian students grew to many hundreds and today Denver has over 2,500 Mongolians living in the metropolitan area and the largest Mongolian community in the Americas.
Mongolia designated an honorary consul for Denver in 1999 and the mayors and respective city assemblies formally designated a Sister City relationship in 2002. With recent visits to Denver by Mongolia's Prime Minster and then its President the recognition of this growing relationship accelerated. Today increasingly business is being conducted between these two cities, numerous Ulaanbaatar/Denver cultural, research, and foundation activities are being carried out and the newly formed Mongolian Community Association of Colorado, along with Denver Sister Cities International's Ulaanbaatar Denver Sister Cities Committee, are carrying out mission of the Colorado-Mongolia Project.
Unquestionably, the Denver-Ulaanbaatar relationship has considerable meaning and benefits for both cities. Two cities, on opposite sides of the world, located in surprisingly similar environments and with expanding urban areas have much to share. However, maybe most importantly Denver’s international perspective has been enhanced and the expanding needs of Ulaanbaatar are being assisted through a vibrant and intriguing people-to-people, business-to-business and city-to-city relationship.
Prior to Mongolia's conversion to a free market and democratic nation in 1990, a relationship was started between Mongolia's capital city, Ulaanbaatar, and Denver. This occurred when the first Mongolian students were sent to the United States in 1989. Two of the students that came that year attended the Colorado School of Mines.
Shortly thereafter a Colorado nonprofit, the Colorado-Mongolia Project was formed to both promote better relations and to engineer a Sister City, or as Mongolians call it a Brother City, relationship.
From the City and County of Denver and the metro Denver area Mongolian business, cultural and educational exchanges flourished. Denver law firms began working in Mongolia, university programs were forged, particularly with the University of Colorado at Denver, and then Denver headquartered mining and mining equipment companies began actively operating in Mongolia. The Denver Art Museum put on a trail blazing and highly successful Mongolian art exhibit with other cultural and art exchanges to follow. Along the way these two early Mongolian students grew to many hundreds and today Denver has over 2,500 Mongolians living in the metropolitan area and the largest Mongolian community in the Americas.
Mongolia designated an honorary consul for Denver in 1999 and the mayors and respective city assemblies formally designated a Sister City relationship in 2002. With recent visits to Denver by Mongolia's Prime Minster and then its President the recognition of this growing relationship accelerated. Today increasingly business is being conducted between these two cities, numerous Ulaanbaatar/Denver cultural, research, and foundation activities are being carried out and the newly formed Mongolian Community Association of Colorado, along with Denver Sister Cities International's Ulaanbaatar Denver Sister Cities Committee, are carrying out mission of the Colorado-Mongolia Project.
Unquestionably, the Denver-Ulaanbaatar relationship has considerable meaning and benefits for both cities. Two cities, on opposite sides of the world, located in surprisingly similar environments and with expanding urban areas have much to share. However, maybe most importantly Denver’s international perspective has been enhanced and the expanding needs of Ulaanbaatar are being assisted through a vibrant and intriguing people-to-people, business-to-business and city-to-city relationship.
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