Mongolia
Mongolia is a country in Eastern Asia, with its capital at Ulaanbaatar, and is home to roughly 3.5M people.
Mongolian is the official language; the currency in circulation is Mongolian tögrög (₮); people from here are called Mongolian.
> INTEL_
> NOTABLE_
- »Mongolia has one of the lowest population densities of any country.
- »Ulaanbaatar is the coldest national capital in the world.
- »The Mongol Empire was the largest contiguous land empire in history.
> BORDERS_
Mongolia touches two neighbours: China to the south and Russia to the north. Directions run from one centre to the other.
> THE CAPITAL_
Ulaanbaatar means 'red hero'. It is the coldest capital city in the world, and it moved location more than twenty times as a nomadic monastery town before settling permanently in 1778.
> SCALE_
1,560,739 km² (602,604 sq mi), 18th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Iran.
Population 3,524,788, 132nd of 198 on file. That averages 2.3 per km² (5.8 per sq mi).
> THE FLAG_
The gold Soyombo symbol on the hoist is a column of ideograms: fire, sun, moon, earth, water and the taijitu, read together as a statement of Mongolian independence.