What is "argalant"

Argalant is a sum in Mongolia's Töv Province, just west of Ulaanbaatar. The area is 1210 square kilometres, of which about 160 square kilometres are farmland and 940 square kilometres are pasture. In 2005, the sum had 1892 inhabitants in 387 households. Distance from sum center to Ulaanbaatar is 82 km. The sum was founded in 1977, in the first year of Mongolia's second Virgin Soils campaign.