Independence Year : 1921
Population : 2662000
Life Expectancy : 67.3
Capital : 2696
GNP : 1043.00
GNP Old : 933.00
Local Name : Mongol Uls
Government Form : Republic
Location : Northern Asia, between China and Russia.
Terrain : vast semidesert and desert plains, grassy steppe, mountains in west and southwest; Gobi Desert in south-central; almost 90% of land area is pasture or desert, of varying usefulness; 1% arable; 9% forested
Climate : Sharp continental, marked by four seasons. Average summer temperature +17'C, average winter temperature -26'C
Ethnic Group : 85% Mongol (predominantly Khalkha), 7% Turkic (largest group, Kazakh) 4.6% Tungusic, and 3.4% others, including Chinese and Russian.
Religions : Tibetan Buddhist Lamaism 94%, Muslim 6% (primarily in the southwest), and Shamanism.
Official Website :
www.mongolie.com
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General Information - Mongolia
Background
Long a province of China, 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. In 1996, the Democratic Union Coalition (DUC) defeated the MPRP in a national election. Over the next four years the Coalition implemented a number of key reforms to modernize the economy and institutionalize democratic reforms. However, the former communists were a strong opposition that stalled additional reforms and made implementation difficult. In 2000, the MPRP won 72 of the 76 seats in Parliament and completely reshuffled the government. While it continues many of the reform policies, the MPRP is focusing on social welfare and public order priorities.
(Source: CIA - The World Factbook)
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