Mongol Uls CAPITAL: Ulaanbaatar FLAG: The national flag, adopted in 1946, contains a light blue vertical stripe between two red stripes; in gold, on the stripe nearest the hoist, is the soyombo, Mongolia's independence emblem. ANTHEM:...
Mongolia POPULATION 2,694,432 TIBETAN BUDDHIST 96 percent OTHER (BAHAI, CHRISTIAN, JEHOVAH'S WITNESS, MUSLIM, SHAMANIST) 4 percent Country Overview Introduction Mongolia is a landlocked country on the Mongolian Plateau in Inner Asia. It is...
(2001 pop. 2.7 million). Mongolia refers to the region in east central Asia where Mongolian ethnic groups rose to power in the thirteenth century. Today it includes the independent Republic of Mongolia (formerly Outer Mongolia), the Chinese autonomous...
Despite the association of Mongolia with its formidable thirteenth leader, Ghengis Khan, citizens of modern Mongolia are not subject to wild military excesses. But while Mongolia's record on traditional civil and political rights is impressive,...
In the past one hundred years, Mongolia's education system has changed in tandem with its dramatic social and political transformations. At the beginning of the twentieth century, a Buddhist theocracy governed what is now Mongolia, and...
Mongolia Mongolia is a landlocked country in central Asia, located between Russia and China. It is vast and sparsely populated, with a population of 2,751,314 (according to 2004 estimates) living on territory roughly twice the size of Texas. Until the...
Mongolian costume shares many characteristics with Chinese, Tibetan, and Manchurian costume forms and its manufacture and styling reflect a nomadic lifestyle. Because the climate is often very cold, costume pieces are worn layered and may be padded and...
A woman cooking in a large piot in her yurt in Hovd Province, Mongolia, in 1996. () Traditional Mongolian foods have been and remain whatever the Mongols can obtain from...
A Russian presence in Mongolia dates to the appearance of Russians in those portions of Siberia adjacent to territories occupied by Mongols in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. At that time Mongolia was coming under the control of the Manchu...
(b. 1957), former prime minister of Mongolia. Janlavyn Narantsatsralt was born in 1957 in Ulziit somon, Dundgobi Province, Mongolia. After graduating from secondary school there in 1975, he studied in Moscow at the Land Management Institute from 1975...
(1916–1991), Mongolian premier and president. Yumjaagiyn Tsedenbel was born in the Uvs province of Mongolia and ruled Mongolia as its premier from 1952 to 1974 and then as its president from 1974 to 1984. In 1931, he had joined the Mongolian...
(1893–1923), Mongolian communist leader. Damdiny Sukhbaatar was Mongolia's official national hero during the Communist era (1921–1991). Born into a serf family in Yost Beysiyn hosuu, in what is now Sukh-Batar Aimig, he began his...
The Hangai (Khangai, Hangayn) Mountains dominate central Mongolia with their rich pastures and forests. The range extends 800 kilometers northwest-southeast and parallels the Mongolian Altai Mountains. Several of the range's snowy peaks reach an...
Located in northeast Mongolia, the Hentii (Khentii) range consists of smooth, rounded mountains covered by large stretches of well-watered virgin forest. The range lacks the high mountaintop relief that one observes, for example, in the Rockies of...
The United Party of Mongolia was officially founded in February 1992 by Sanjaasurengiyn Zorig, the leader of the democratic movement in Mongolia who brought down seventy years of Communist rule in 1990. The United Party (UP) developed from a merger of...
