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Taking Mongolia as example (for a prior example see the talk page), we get 591 (un-unique) results for searching places that contain "Hüryee". Hüryee (other transkriptions: Küriye, Khüree etc.) means monastery, so form a pre-1930s viewpoint it is not surprising at all to have many of such places in Mongolia. However, most (all but very, very few) of Mongolia's monasteries were destroyed in the political repressions of the late 1930s, and even after the liberalization of 1990 the Buddhist church in Mongolia is definitely a shadow of her former self.

Restricting oneself to populated places in Khövsgöl, which is the part of Mongolia I am most familiar with, one gets (listing only "BGN Standard): I will leave out the results 451-591. The situation should be similar for words like "hiid" (also a monastery) or "örtöö" (horse relay post).
 * Mörön 49.63417°N, 100.1625°W - correct
 * Tsagaan Hüryee 50.93333°N, 101.66667°W - looks uninhabited to me. Next district center would be Tsagaan-Üür, Khövsgöl.
 * Yihe Hujirtayn Hüryee 48.68333°N, 100.16667°W - looks uninhabited to me. Next district center could be Galt, Khövsgöl
 * Tsagaan Burgaasanii Hüryee 49.99806°N, 100.33333°W - looks uninhabited to me, but interesting. Maybe I'll go there one day. Next district center would be Alag-Erdene, Khövsgöl
 * Mandahaiin Hüryee 48.76667°N, 99.6°W - looks uninhabited to me. Next district center could be Shine-Ider, Khövsgöl
 * Utagiin Hüryee 49.98333°N, 101.25°W - looks uninhabited to me. Next district center could be Tünel, Khövsgöl.
 * Bandi Gegeenii Hüryee 49.15°N, 101.43333°W - the place just south of this location is now (and I think already in the 1930s) colloquially known as Rashaant, Khövsgöl. I think there are actually one or two monasteries now in Rashaant, but I don't know if one of them is called Bandi Gegeenii Khüree.
 * Ibeeteyn Hüryee 51.15°N, 99.25°W - looks uninhabited to me. Next district center could be Renchinlkhümbe, Khövsgöl
 * Asahatayn Hüryee 49.6°N, 101.66667°W - looks uninhabited to me. Next district center could be Ikh-Uul, Khövsgöl. See also next entry
 * Asahatayn Hüryee 49.4°N, 100.71667°W - looks uninhabited to me. Strange that two monasteries so close to each other should go by the same name. Next district center could be Ikh-Uul, Khövsgöl or Tosontsengel, Khövsgöl
 * Arshaanii Hüryee 50.76667°N, 100.8°W - looks uninhabited to me. Next district center could be Chandmani-Öndör, Khövsgöl
 * Arigiin Hüryee 50.45°N, 100.9°W - looks uninhabited to me. The Chandmani-Öndör, Khövsgöl district center is just to the northeast, but the name of the monastery makes it seem as if should be at that river just to the south, which IIRC goes by the name Arig gol.
 * Bügseyn Hüryee 49.53333°N, 99.9°W - looks uninhabited to me (in fact, you can see some yurts and some bronze-age grave mounds nearby). Next sum center would be Mörön (city) or Bürentogtokh, Khövsgöl. However, I think this particular case has to do with wrong coordinates. There is a Bügseyn Khüree in the Bügsey gol vallay, which is about 30 km further south (behind the mountains). I know this particular monastery has been rebuilt, but from what I heard it is also not really inhabited now. This Bügseyn Khüree is in Tömörbulag district.
 * Bügdegenii Hüryee 49.13333°N, 100.05°W - looks uninhabited to me. Next district center could be Tömörbulag, Khövsgöl.
 * Hanhayn Hüryee 51.45°N, 100.7°W - the Hanh district center is just to the north.
 * Araiin Hüryee 48.4°N, 99.45°W - looks uninhabited to me. Next district center could be Jargalant, Khövsgöl.

What is maybe worse is that the database seems to adopt the official names of the district centers as "BGN standard". People in Mongolia will always use the official name of the district, not that of the district center. If you ask someone in Khövsgöl for the way to "Jargalant", he will tell you the way to the center of Jargalant district, not to the center of Tömörbulag district.