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.
- »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.
Mongolia touches two neighbours: China to the south and Russia to the north. Directions run from one centre to the other.
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.
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 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.