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  Mongolia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mongolia (Khalkh Mongol: Монгол Улс) is a landlocked nation in central Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and the People's Republic of China to the south.
The 18th largest country in the world by area, Mongolia has very little arable land: much of its area is grassland, with mountains in the north and west and the Gobi Desert in the south.
Mongolia is split in to 21 provinces (aimag), Ulaanbaatar (the capital) is a municipality with provincial status.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mongolia   (956 words)

  
 Mongolia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Mongolia (Khalkha Mongolian: Монгол Улс) is a landlocked country in Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and the People's Republic of China to the south.
In the 13th century, Mongolia was part of the Mongol Empire.
Mongolia's economy is centered on oil, coal, and copper, with smaller industries in molybdenum, tungsten, and phosphate mining.
www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/m/mo/mongolia.html   (501 words)

  
 Mongolia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Mongolia (Khalkha Mongolian: Монгол Улс) is a landlocked nation in central Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and the People's Republic of China to the south.
It was the center of the Mongol Empire of the 13th century, but was ruled by the Chinese Qing dynasty from the end of the 17th century until an independent government was again formed with Soviet assistance in 1921.
The 18th largest country in the world, Mongolia has very little arable land: much of its area is grassland, with mountains in the north and west and the Gobi Desert in the south.
www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Mongolia   (1058 words)

  
 Inner Mongolia
Geography: The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is between longitude 97° 12'-126° 04' E. and latitude 37° 24'-53° 23' N. It is China's northern frontier; in the northeast, it borders on Russia and Mongolia; internally, it borders on Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces.
Inner Mongolia is one of China's livestock husbandry bases, and is the biggest China's five main pastoral areas; a feature of its agricultural economy is livestock husbandry.
A feature of education distribution in Inner Mongolia is the increase in the size of the educated population, with the average number of years of schooling increasing annually.
www.unescap.org /esid/psis/population/database/chinadata/innermongolia.htm   (2264 words)

  
 Mongolia (06/05)
Mongolia maintains an embassy in the United States at 2833 M Street, NW, Washington, DC, 20007; tel.
Mongolia, which joined the World Trade Organization in 1997, is the only member of that organization to not be a participant in a regional trade organization.
Mongolia is seeking to join APEC and became a full participant in the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) in July 1998.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2779.htm   (4548 words)

  
 e-Mongol.com : Geography of Mongolia
Mongolia is landlocked in the heart of Eurasia, the greatest terrestrial mass of the globe.
South Mongolia, made up mainly of sagging plates, is the cradle of the famous Gobi Desert, the habitat of such rare mammals who are on the brink of extinction as Mazalai, Gobi’s brown bear, fl tail antelope and Havtgai, wild bactrian camel.
The territory of Mongolia is divided into 21 main administrative units, including the municipality of Ulaanbaatar and 21 provinces (known as aimags), which are further divided into 331 counties (known as soums).
www.e-mongol.com /mongolia_geography.htm   (541 words)

  
 Samar Magic Tours-Adventure Active Tours, Adventure Travel , Exotic Vacations, Holidays & Vacations....
Mongolia is situated in the centre of the continent of Asia Central (between Russia and China) and covers an area of 603, 899 sq.
Mongolia's geography is very diverse, including high mountains.The Mongol Altai Nuruu are permanently snowcapped, and their highest peak, Tavanbogd Uul (4370m/14,350ft), has a magnificent glacier that towers over Mongolia, Russia and China.
Mongolia's geography is including boundless steppes, vast valleys, rivers (4000, rich in fish), lakes (16 large lakes) and the Gobi desert.
www.samarmagictours.com /en_mon.htm   (949 words)

  
 Mongolia general information for travel to Mongolia
Mongolia has such a colourful history, fascinating culture, and wealth of geographical facts that it would be impossible to describe any aspect of the country in just a few pages.
Mongolia is the 17th largest country in the world, yet it supports a population of just two and a half million, about half of whom are nomadic.
Mongolia's most famous character is Chinggis Khaan (also known as Genghis Khan), who in the 13th Century united the warring clans of Central Asia and went on to establish the great Mongol Empire.See: www.geocities.com.Before Chinggis Khaan there were the Xiongnu who terrorised China, and the Huns who conquered Europe.
www.mongolia.co.uk /mongolia.htm   (309 words)

  
 M. Steven Fish - Mongolia: Democracy Without Prerequisites - Journal of Democracy 9:3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Mongolia was deeply dependent on Soviet aid, and its international economic relations consisted entirely of ties with other socialist countries.
Mongolia became a single-party Leninist state with intimate ties to the Soviet Union at the beginning of the 1920s.
Mongolia's experience highlights the usefulness of sometimes treating parties and party systems as explanatory factors whose strength, magnitude, inclusiveness, and differentiation may crucially shape political outcomes.
www.ku.edu /~herron/personal/POLS151/9.3fish.html   (5860 words)

  
 Adventure in Mongolia - Explore Mongolia
Mongolia is a landlocked country of mountains, steppe and desert stretching over an area of 1,566,500 sq km / 604,830 sq miles.
Mongolia’s tallest mountain ranges are in the far west.
After the Khan dynasty fizzled out at the end of the thirteenth century, the unity of Mongolia evaporated and the country experienced a period of several centuries which was dominated by inter-clan warfare.
www.keadventure.com /countries/mongolia   (1067 words)

  
 Santis: Mongolia's English & Foreign Language School   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The modern nation of Mongolia is completely landlocked between its two large neighbors –the Russian Federation to the north and China to the south, southeast and southwest.
Mongolia is the 6th largest country in the world, with a surface area of 1,566,500 square kilometres.
Mongolia is a remarkably sunny country, enjoying 250 sunny days a year, often with clear cloudless skies in both winter and summer.
www.santis.mn /files/travel.htm   (408 words)

  
 Mongolia's Geography and Climate
Mongolia's forests are filled with pine, larch and cedar trees, which can be found in the mountains.
Mongolia has an extreme climate with temperatures varying greatly with the seasons.
The summers in Mongolia tend to have about 15 inches of rain (380 mm), excluding the desert, while the winters are typically without precipitation.
www.asianinfo.org /asianinfo/mongolia/pro-geography.htm   (301 words)

  
 Mongolia (09/03)
Mongolia and the Soviet Union signed an agreement in 1966 that introduced largescale Soviet ground forces as part of Moscow's general buildup along the Sino-Soviet frontier.
Mongolia was heavily dependent upon the former Soviet Union for fuel, medicine, and spare parts for its factories and power plants.
Mongolia's GDP growth fell from 3.2% in 1999 to 1.1% in 2000 and 1.0% in 2001.
www.state.gov /outofdate/bgn/m/35753.htm   (4017 words)

  
 The EU's relations with Mongolia - Overview
In 2003 Mongolia hosted the 5th Conference of New or Restored Democracies which was attended by delegations from 118 countries - a major success that highlighted Mongolia’s active role in the international community.
During the 1990s, Mongolia made progress in laying the institutional and policy foundations for a market oriented economy, including price and trade liberalization, launching large-scale privatization (retail sector and livestock herding), curtailing budget transfers and lending to state enterprises, and setting-up a commercial banking system.
Geography: Mongolia is a landlocked country, located between the Russian Federation in the North and the PR China in the South.
europa.eu.int /comm/external_relations/mongolia/intro   (1970 words)

  
 Mongolia Cashmere
Threats to the biodiversity of Mongolia and therefore future growth are: overgrazing which leads to desertification, over exploitation of animals and plants, pollution, soil erosion, and loss of land to oil and mining.
One percent of Mongolia is severely effected by desertification, three percent is considerably effected, 21 percent is effected to a medium extent, and 75 percent of Mongolia's land mass is slightly effected by desertification.
Before the transformation, Mongolia had a ban on exports, which was much better for the environment than the current tax on exports because the new competition is leading to the realization that to make it, the herders need more animals.
www.american.edu /TED/mongolia.htm   (3231 words)

  
 Mongolia - Gurupedia
Mongolia (Khalkha Mongolian: Монгол Улс) is a landlocked country in
Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party or MPRP, which was formed by Mongolia's communist leaders after the end of the Cold War.
Mongolia's economy is centered on oil, coal, and copper, with smaller industries in
www.gurupedia.com /m/mo/mongolia_(country).htm   (441 words)

  
 Geography of Mongolia - Barry Wijnandts | Mongoluls.Net
Mongolia is landlocked between the super states China and Russia.
The average altitude of Mongolia is 1580 metres, which makes it one of the highest countries in the world.
The Changajn Nuruu (mountain range) in the west center of Mongolia is the water division.
mongoluls.net /geography.shtml   (396 words)

  
 Foreign & Commonwealth Office Country Profiles
Mongolia is a huge landlocked country, more than six times the size of the UK, sandwiched between Russia and China.
Mongolia is actively participating in UN sponsored peacekeeping activities.
Mongolia established a Human Rights Commission in 2001 and is receiving substantial support from the UNDP to develop HR awareness.
www.fco.gov.uk /servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1007029394365&a=KCountryProfile&aid=1019041550447   (1947 words)

  
 Mongolia
Mongolia lies in central Asia between Siberia on the north and China on the south.
Allied with the USSR in its dispute with China, Mongolia began mobilizing troops along its borders in 1968 when the two powers became involved in border clashes on the Kazakh-Sinkiang frontier to the west and at the Amur and Ussuri rivers.
Enkhbayar was Mongolia's prime minister from 1990 to 1994.
www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0107796.html   (877 words)

  
 Mongolia - Atlapedia Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
It is bound by Russia to the north and China to the east, south and west.
Mongolia is a mountainous country with the high ground concentrated in the west, while the Mongolian Altai Mountain Chain of folded mountains lies northwest to southeast.
In 1961 Mongolia joined the UN and in the early 1960's Mongolia aligned itself with the Soviet Union during the Soviet-Chinese dispute for leadership of the communist world.
www.atlapedia.com /online/countries/mongolia.htm   (1146 words)

  
 Mongolia - Geography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Overall, the land slopes from the high Altai Mountains of the west and the north to plains and depressions in the east and the south.
The highest is the Altai Mountains, which stretch across the western and the southwestern regions of the country on a northwest-to-southeast axis.
Much of eastern Mongolia is occupied by a plain, and the lowest area is a southwest-to-northeast trending depression that reaches from the Gobi region in the south to the eastern frontier.
countrystudies.us /mongolia/33.htm   (334 words)

  
 Mongolia Geography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Hutyen Orgil (sometimes called Nayramadlin Orgil--Mount Friendship) in extreme western Mongolia, where the Mongolian, the Soviet, and the Chinese borders meet, is the highest point (4,374 meters).
Northern and western Mongolia are seismically active zones, with frequent earthquakes and many hot springs and extinct volcanoes.
Rivers in northeastern Mongolia drain into the Pacific through the Argun and Amur (Heilong Jiang) rivers, while the few streams of southern and southwestern Mongolia do not reach the sea but run into salt lakes or deserts.
www.country-studies.com /mongolia/geography.html   (334 words)

  
 Mongolia's Geography - Terrain
Mongolia is a nation filled with stark geographic contrasts.
Mongolia's mountains support the southern edge of the great Siberian taiga, which covers about 10% of Mongolia with dense stands of larch and evergreen trees.
The Gobi is a vast expanse of barren terrain that dominates the southern one-third of Mongolia.
www.koreanhistoryproject.org /Jta/Mo/MoGEO1.htm   (469 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Mongolia
The population of Mongolia is estimated variously at 2,600,000 (Statesman's Year Book, 1910), 2,580,000 or nearly 2 to the square mile, and 5,000,000.
Inner Mongolia is broadly speaking "what is to the south of the Great Desert": it extends over the plateau beyond the K'ingan Mountains into the Upper Valley of the Manchurian rivers, the Liao and the Sungari; it includes part of Outer Chi-li.
On 7 Sept., 1864, the Lazarists surrendered Mongolia to the Belgian missionaries and Theophilus Verbiest (b.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/10479b.htm   (3216 words)

  
 Citizen's Alliance
Harsh weather and uncultured geography of Mongolia posed as life-threatening obstacles to refugees lacking the resources and knowledge to sustain themselves in a strange land for an indeterminable period.
Unlike the neighboring China, Mongolia was relatively tolerant of North Koreans seeking asylum in accordance with the international refugee laws.
This move made by Mongolian authorities is a proof that the North Korea – China – Mongolia refugee trail continues and to a degree that aggravates the Mongolian government.
www.chosunjournal.com /mongolia.html   (330 words)

  
 Mongolia Geography
Mongolia is located Northern Asia, between China and Russia.
The terrain of Mongolia is made up of vast semidesert and desert plains; mountains in west and southwest; Gobi Desert in southeast
Mongolia is desert; continental (large daily and seasonal temperature ranges).
www.nationbynation.com /Mongolia/Geo.html   (41 words)

  
 CIA - The World Factbook -- Mongolia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
China is Mongolia's chief export partner and a main source of the "shadow" or "grey" economy.
Mongolia settled its $11 billion debt with Russia at the end of 2003 on very favorable terms.
Mongolia, which joined the World Trade Organization in 1997, seeks to expand its participation and integration into Asian regional economic and trade regimes.
www.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/print/mg.html   (1338 words)

  
 Mongolia Country Guide - General Information - World Travel Guide Provided By Columbus Travel Publishing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
GEOGRAPHY: Mongolia has a 3485km- (2165 mile-) border with the Russian Federation in the north and a 4670km- (2902 mile-) border with China in the south.
From north to south, it can be divided into four areas: mountain-forest steppe, mountain steppe and, in the extreme south, semi-desert and desert (the latter being about 3 per cent of the entire territory).
The English-language papers published in Mongolia include The Mongol Messenger and The UB Post, both of which are published weekly.
www.worldtravelguide.net /data/mng/mng.asp   (391 words)

  
 Mongolia -> Government on Encyclopedia.com 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Mongolia is governed under the constitution of 1992.
Supplement: Mongolia - Wheels In Motion - Mongolia's Continued Economic Growth Is Attracting Investors.
A homeless resident of an underground sewer washes his face in Ulan Bataar, Mongolia in October 2000.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/mongolnat_government.asp   (553 words)

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