OFFICIAL NAME		Mongolia
GEOGRAPHY		Vast semi-desert and desert plains, grassy steppe, mountains in west and southwest; Gobi Desert in south-central; landlocked between C hina and Russia
AREA		1,566,500 sq km / 604,633 sq miles
COMPARATIVE		Slightly smaller than Alaska
POPULATION		2,694,432
CAPITAL		Ulaanbaatar
LITERACY		98% (age 15+ and can read and write)
LANGUAGE		Official: Mongolian Other: C hinese and Russian
RELIGION		Tibetan Buddhist Lamaism - 96% Christian - 2% Other - 2% ... includes Muslim (primarily in the southwest) and Shamanism combined.
POLITICS		Won independence from C hina in 1921; parliamentary government with President elected for 4 years.
INCOME		Per capita income = US$ 590 per year
CURRENCY		Tugrik (Tug)
TIME ZONES		GMT/UTC +8 and GMT/UTC +7
SOURCES		Statistics provided by a variety of sources, but mostly the U.S. State Department, the U.N. Statistics Division, and BBC News.

Country Profile

• BBC country profile

Portal

• Library of Congress/Mongolia

News: Mongolia-Specific

• Mongolia News
• Mongolia Today

News: Asia General

• Channel News Asia (all Asia)
• World News Asia (all Asia)

Travel

• Mongolia Tourism (government site)
• Lonely Planet/Mongolia
• U.S. State Department Travel/Mongolia consular page

Map

• Lonely Planet/Mongolia map

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