Mongolia is a landlocked country located the 18th largest in the world located in central Asia.
The country is split into 21 provinces or Aimags, and the capital is Ulaanbaatar or "Red Hero" located in the northeast.
The city is the coldest and was a nomadic city that moved 28 times before finally selecting the location of the city.
And holds around 45% of the country's population (as of 2021 the population is 3.348 million), and the only airport is "Chenggis Khaan International".
The main railway goes through Russia and China and also is connected to the trans-siberian railway in Russia.
They have museums, military, history, national, fine arts, natural history, and even dinosaurs.
Many monasteries and the oldest one Erdene Zuu.
They have three small mountain chains: The Altai being the biggest, the Khangal mountains, and the Khentii mountains.
Coming to Mongolia you will see lots of Genghis Khan, money, carvings, hilsides, statues.
Interesting places like: The Bogh palace, Ikh Berkhant complex, The Taikhar stone, the Shambala Stupa statue (the locals call this the center of the universe)
The northern landscape is more greener and hillier , as their south is part of the gobi desert, as it is big and green, and lots of grass, there are lots of horses, and also they are very important, as they were used alot in history, as food carriers (and food), transportation, milk, and sport.
There are estimates that there are 13x more horses and 30x more sheep live in Mongolia compared to people, also they have the two humped camels the Bactrian Camels, which are national treasures they also have a festival treasures, the saiga antelope, and 1/3 of the worlds snow leporid population lives in Mongolia.
Mongolia focusses on two industries, mining, and livestock, minerals make up about 80% of their exports mainly from gold and copper, they are also the the second highest producer of cashmere goat wool after china.
Second largest population of Yaks again after china which they use for milk and dairy.
Their foods are as follows: Aarul a dehydrated fermented milk cheese, their national drink Airag, which is usually from horse milk, and buuz dumpings.
A Population of 3.1million people (THATS A LOT OF SHEEP), and it is most sparsely sovern state in population, in about two people per square kilometer.
95% are ethnically Mongolian, the rest are Russians and Kazakhs.
The currency is the Mongolian Mongolian Tugrikv, type c and e plug outlets and drive on the right side of the road.
Half the population is Buddhist, some are Shamen non-religious, and the others are Christian or Muslim.
They use the Cyrillic alphabet they adopted it during sovet times. Aldough they do have their own writing system the "Hudum Mongol Bichig" read left to right and it is written vertically.
1/3 of the population is nomadic living in yurt communities.
They are big on wrestling or Bokh.
They also have troat singing which is singing with two voices, named overtone singing, one with a normal voice and another voice with a whipser.
They have lots of festivals: Golden eagle festival, Ice festival, their new years which they serve lots of fatty meat.
Germany and the USA have very high Mongol populations abroad, And good friends with Russia.
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