Mongolia Country Info - Asia

Description and Basic Information

Mongolia with its capital Ulan Bator is located in Asia (Northern Asia, between China and Russia). It covers some 1,565,001 square kilometres (slightly smaller than Alaska) with 2,996,000 citizens. Mongolian and Russian are the some of the languages spoken by the majority in Mongolia. It is charing borders with China and Russia.

Mongolia is a landlocked country located between China and Russia. It is a vast emptiness that links land and sky, and is one of the last few places on the planet where nomadic life is still a living tradition. Mongolia is home to the three manly sports: wrestling, horse racing, and archery, and these are same three sporting events that take place every year at the Naadam festival. Local Bonda Lake Camp in Khatgal village near Lake Khovsgol offers various nature and cultural featuring: fishing, hiking, winter tours, nomad visits, horse back riding, visiting reindeer herders and Darhad valley.

Pictures from Capital (Ulan Bator)

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About Mongolia

The terrain offers vast semidesert and desert plains, grassy steppe, mountains in west and southwest having Gobi Desert in south-central. The average density of population is about 1 per km². The climate in Mongolia can be described as desert with continental (large daily and seasonal temperature ranges). Possible natural disasters include dust storms or grassland and forest fires, drought, ", zud," or which being harsh winter conditions.

To reach someone in Mongolia dial +976 prior to a number. There are 188,900 installed telephones. And there are 2,249,000 registered mobile phones. The cellular networks operate on frequencies of 900 Mhz. Websites typically end with the top level domain ".mn". If you want to bring electric appliances (e.g. battery charger), keep in mind the local 220V - 50Hz. The following list are the 22 regions/states in Mongolia we know off.

Demographic Statistics

In the year 2010, the total Mongolian population grew at a rate of 1.5% (or by 46,149 citizens). With 18,768 deaths and 64,918 babies born, the natural increase rate lies at 1.5%. 0 persons more in total immigrated to the country than emmigrated.

An overview of age distribution in Mongolia: Each pair of bars represents a single age group (male/female). Each group is spanning 5 years. E.g. 0 to 5 years, 5 to 10 etc. and group "0 to 5" being at the left end and "100 +" at the right end of the chart.

Based on content from wikitravel.org. The original article can be found here based on the work of these users.
Geographic information is based on the data provided by geonames.org, CIA factsbook and Unesco.