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This is Virtual-Tripping around Mongolia.
By Mark on August 4, 2009
This post about the Asia country of Mongolia is a landlocked country in East and Central Asia. It borders Russia to the north and the People’s Republic of China to the south, east and west. Although Mongolia does not share a border with Kazakhstan, its western-most point is only 24 miles (38 km) from Kazakhstan’s eastern tip. Ulan Bator, the capital and largest city, is home to about 38% of the population. Mongolia’s political system is a parliamentary republic.
This is a satellite image picture taken from Google Earth of Asia, with Mongolia in the centre above China.
This is a satellite image taken from Google Earth of Mongolia in north-east Asia.
This is a satellite image picture taken of the capital city Ulaanbaatar.
At 1,564,116 square kilometres, Mongolia is the nineteenth largest and the most sparsely populated independent country in the world, with a population of around 2.9 million people. It is also the world’s second-largest landlocked country after Kazakhstan. The country contains very little arable land, as much of its area is covered by steppes, with mountains to the north and west and the Gobi Desert to the south. Approximately 30% of the country’s 2.9 million people are nomadic or semi-nomadic. The predominant religion in Mongolia is Tibetan Buddhism, and the majority of the state’s citizens are of the Mongol ethnicity, though Kazakhs, Tuvans, and other minorities also live in the country, especially in the west. About 20% of the population live off less than US$1.25 per day.
Information was provided by Wikipedia.
This is a picture taken from panoramio of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
This is a picture taken from Panoramio of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
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One Response to “This is Virtual-Tripping around Mongolia.”
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Nick Ramsay, exploring the world from a zabuton in Japan.
4:03 pm on January 13th, 2011
i love mongolia.