Agency for Land Administration and Management, Geodesy and Cartography
Land administration agency
Mongolia's land administration agency: a government implementing agency responsible for land use, land use planning, land administration and real estate registration, operating under the construction and urban development portfolio (UNDP evaluation document on land degradation in western Mongolia). It runs land management, the cadastre, and geodesy and cartography - the paper trail behind land possession, use and ownership decisions in the capital and the 21 aimags.
The agency was created in January 2003 as the Administration of Land Affairs, Geodesy and Cartography, merging the Land Management Authority, the State Administration of Geodesy and Cartography and the Real Property Registration Authority, after the Land Law of 2002 intensified land reform and privatisation (WPLA workshop on institutional framework for securing real property rights, Tbilisi, May 2006; OICRF, Critical issues regarding the development of an efficient national land information system in Mongolia).
PEOPLE
Enkhmanlai Anand
Director General - named as Director General of the General Authority for Land Administration and Management, Geodesy and Cartography in the agency's Pastureland National Report on gazar.gov.mn
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Gankhuu Tsevelsodnom
Director-General - named as Director-General in the agency's UN-GGIM-AP presentation on IGIF implementation in Mongolia
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RECORD
Rangeland photo monitoring since 2015
Since 2015 the agency has implemented rangeland change assessment through photo monitoring. Annual surveys are conducted every August at 5,322 monitoring points covering 129.3 million hectares of rangelands across 21 aimags, 330 soums and six districts of the capital, with data stored in the integrated land monitoring database. According to the Unified Land Fund Report for 2025, rangelands account for 82.7 percent of the country's total territory (Agency Pastureland National Report, gazar.gov.mn).
The integrated land system
The Land Manager programme for the cadastre database was introduced in 21 aimags, 330 soums and the nine districts of the capital during 2017-2018. The Integrated Land Administration System for the Unified Land Database, covering planning, land exchange, valuation and taxation, cadastral, monitoring and urban development systems, has operated nationwide since 2020 in accordance with Government Decree No. 110 (LADM-based cadastral model study for Mongolia).
The 2026 land allocation list - reported
Montsame reported on 12 February 2026 that the Government, at its session on 11 February 2026, approved the list of land locations, sizes and designated uses to be allocated and utilised nationwide in 2026. The agency had conducted a comprehensive analysis through the unified digital land management system and identified 102.079 million hectares as available for allocation and use, a decision reported as allowing land issues for more than 35,000 citizens, businesses and organisations to be addressed (Montsame, via Mongolian Business Database, 12 February 2026).
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