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Mongolia

MONGOLIA FACT SHEET (from Wikipedia)

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• Capital (and largest city) Ulaanbaatar
• Official languages Mongolian
• Governmet Parliamentary democracy

• Area 1,564,116 square km (size of Quebec). The 6th largest country in Asia, and the 18th largest in the world.

• Altitude Capital Ulaanbaatar 1.350m above sea level

• Lowest Point Hoh Nuur 518 m above sea level

• Highest Point Nayramadlin Orgil 4,374 m above sea level

• Climate Continental, marked by four seasons, with sharp variation

• Average Temp 20°C in the summer, -30°C in winter

• Sunshine Over 260 sunny days a year , often with clear cloudless skies.

• Rainfall and Snow Snow and rainfall are very low, the climate being arid. However, enough rain usually occurs in July and August to swell rivers, and snow blizzards can occur in winter. The highest peaks have small glaciers.

• Regions 21 Aimags (provinces)

• Population 2.4 million (1,000,000 live in Ulaanbaator)

• Language Mongolina (an Altaic language, distantly related to Turkish); English and Russian also widely spoken

• Religion Predominately Tibetan Buddhism; Christianity; Islam; traces of ancient Shamanism

• National Flag Red/blue/red with gold soyombo symbol in hoist segment

• National Motto Kharit Mongol Oronoo Manduulyaa (‘Let us Make our Beloved Country Flourish’)

• Tourist Season Mid-May through mid-September

• Currency Togrog. CND$1 = 1,100 Tg

• Diet Mongolia’s diet is very much based on meat and dairy products. The local alcoholic drink is airag, fermented mare’s milk

• Literacy Very high, in excess of 80%.

• Ethnic groups 85% Mongol, mostly Khalkha Mongol. 7% Turkic (mainly Kazakh), 4.6% Tungusic 3.4% other groups. Four million Mongols live outside Mongolia.

• Livestock Numbers According to the 2004 livestock census, the number of livestock in Mongolia was 27,996,800:up 10% on 2003. Preliminary estimates indicate that there are 1,999,600 horses, 1,835,500 cows, 11,659,000 sheep and 12,215,400 goats. Compared with 2003 the number of horses has increased by 30,700; cows by 42,600; sheep by 903,500 and goats by 1,562,700. The number of camels fell by 400 to 256,300.

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