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Mongolia Travel Guide

The Mongolia Travel Guide is a comprehensive directory of facts and figures that we hope you will find interesting.

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Full Name

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Former Name

Outer Mongolia

Capital City

Ulaanbaatar

Government Type

mixed parliamentary/presidential

Climate

desert; continental (large daily and seasonal temperature ranges)

Geography

landlocked; strategic location between China and Russia

Languages

Khalkha Mongol 90%, Turkic, Russian (1999)

History

The Mongols gained fame in the 13th century when under Chinggis KHAN they conquered a huge Eurasian empire. After his death the empire was divided into several powerful Mongol states, but these broke apart in the 14th century. The Mongols eventually retired to their original steppe homelands and later came under Chinese rule. Mongolia won its independence in 1921 with Soviet backing. A Communist regime was installed in 1924. During the early 1990s, the ex-Communist Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP) gradually yielded its monopoly on power to the Democratic Union Coalition (DUC), which defeated the MPRP in a national election in 1996. Since then, parliamentary elections returned the MPRP overwhelmingly to power in 2000 and produced a coalition government in 2004.

Currency

Mongolian Tugrik (MNT)

Ulan Bator

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