Mongolia in Perspective

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Page | Page | Chapter 1: Geography Introduction Geographic Regions and Topographic Features Climate Rivers and Lakes Rivers Lak ...

Page | Chapter 1: Geography Introduction Mongolia is one of Asia’s bigger countries, but it was once much larger. Up until the 2 ...

Page | 6 Geographic Regions and Topographic Features With an average altitude of 1,580 m (5,180 ft), Mongolia is one of the worl ...

Page | 7 beginning of the Gobi Desert. Some of this region receives rainfall only once every two or three years. While climatica ...

Page | 8 system that lodges itself over the northwestern part of the country.^27 In fact, winter is generally the sunniest seaso ...

Page | 9 Rivers and Lakes Rivers Broadly, Mongolia’s rivers flow in three different directions: northward to rivers draining int ...

Page | 10 Lakes Mongolia has several thousand lakes larger than 1.3 sq km (0.5 sq mi).^41 Many of these lakes lie in desert depr ...

Page | 11 Cities City Census Population 2000^46 Estimated 2008 Population^47 Ulaanbaatar 760,077 907, Erdenet 68,310 88, Darhan ...

Page | 12 Ulaanbaatar Ulaanbaatar is Mongolia’s only metropolis. Its population dwarfs that of all other Mongolian cities. Found ...

Page | 13 Erdenet Mongolia’s second-largest city began life in the mid-1970s as a joint Soviet-Mongolian venture to exploit the ...

Page | 14 Choybalsan Choybalsan is eastern Mongolia’s most important city and only true industrial city.^64 Located on the Herle ...

Page | 15 Environmental Concerns Mongolia’s low population density and traditional subsistence economy has allowed the country t ...

Page | 16 Mining is a pillar of the Mongolian economy. Most extraction operations are of the open-pit type. Mongolian law requir ...

Page | 17 of life.”^85 In addition to contaminating drinking water, mining in Mongolia has caused hundreds of rivers and lakes t ...

Page | 18 earthquake occurred in a sparsely populated part of the Altai Mountains, or the loss of life would have been much grea ...

Page | 19 Chapter 1: Assessment A zud is a natural disaster that occurs during some severe Mongolian winters when heavy snowfal ...

Page | 20 Chapter 2: History Introduction For most contemporary Westerners, Mongolia is one of the lesser known countries of Eas ...