Mongolia Area Code

+976 is the dialing code for Mongolia.

Mountains, desert and grassy rolling steppe characterize Mongolia, sandwiched between Russia and China in northeast Asia. Here, a nomadic herding culture still dominates. During the Middle Ages, Mongol leaders such as Djingi’s Khan and his descendants ruled over large parts of eastern Asia and Russia, but later their kingdoms collapsed and Mongolia fell under Chinese rule. From the 1920s until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the country was ruled by the Communist Party. Since then, democratization and economic reform have been carried out, but not without problems.

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Geography and climate

Mongolia Area Code

Mongolia is located in the heart of eastern Asia, sandwiched between Russia in the north and China in the east, south and west. The country, which is more than three times the size of Sweden, is located on a vast, sparsely populated high plateau. It was previously sometimes called Outer Mongolia to distinguish it from the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia.

In western Mongolia, the Altai Mountains rise to over 4,300 meters. In these hard-to-reach areas, the rare snow leopard is still alive. To the east of Altaj lies a more low-lying area, sprinkled with a large number of lakes, some of them with salt water. Among these are the country’s largest lake Uvs nuur. The northern and central parts of Mongolia are dominated by two wooded mountain ranges, the Changaj and Chentij mountains in whose forests there are moose, brown bear and lo. Between the mountain ranges lies the fertile lowlands surrounding the Selenge and Tuul rivers which have been the country’s cultural center throughout history. The rivers in this area flow north towards Lake Baikal in Russia.

The most typical landscape for Mongolia is the rolling steppe with its good pastures in the south and east. In the southeast, the Gobi Desert from China extends into Mongolia. To the east, the steppe landscape rises to the Mongolian plateau.

Country Facts

Geography

Cultivated land 73 %
Land area 1564116 km 2

Population and health

Population development 1.31 ‰
Urban population (Urbanization) 72 %
Death rate 6.35 per 1000 residents
Life expectancy: Women 73.76 years
Life expectancy: Men 65.04 years
Birth rate 20.25 births per 1000 residents
HDI index 0.727
Population 2992908
Infant mortality 22.44 deaths / 1000 births

Population Graph Source: Countryaah.com

Energy

Electricity, production 4534 million kWh
Energy consumption per resident 1404.2 kg. oil per resident
Natural gas, production million cubic meters
Crude oil, production million tons

Infrastructure

Internet users 17.9 per 100 residents
Mobile subscriptions 103 per 100 residents
Passenger cars 72 per 1000 residents

Business and economics

Unemployment 8.3% of the workforce
GDP 12100 per resident
Primary occupations 33 %
Secondary profession 10.6 %
Tertiary professions 56.4 %

On the steppe and in the semi-desert, ungulates like the goat’s gazelle and the now extremely rare Przewalski’s wild horse and various rodents live. One of the latter, the steppe murmur, is originally the host animal for the plague bacilli, which still affects humans in Mongolia.

The country is often prone to earthquakes, especially in the mountain areas. There are a large number of extinguished volcanoes in the lowlands and the remains of massive erosions on the steppes.

Mongolia has a distinct continental climate, with large differences between winter and summer season. Winters are long and cold, but mostly sunny. The country has over 200 days of sunshine a year. Most of the precipitation falls during the short, hot summer, especially in July, when heavy rainfall often causes flooding. The annual rainfall varies from less than 100 mm per year in the south to 350 mm in the mountains. The steppe areas are sometimes haunted by sudden hurricanes.

FACTS – GEOGRAPHY AND CLIMATE

Surface

1,566,500 km2 (2018)

Time

Swedish + 7-9 hours

Adjacent country (s)

China, Russia

Capital with number of residents

Ulan Bator (Ulaanbataar) 1,463,000 residents

Other major cities

Erdenet 78,000, Darchan 75,000, Tjojbalsan 37,500 (estimated 2010)

Highest mountain

Chöjten (4374 m asl)

Important rivers

Selenge, Tuul

Largest lake

Uvs Nuur, Chövsgöl Nuur

Average Precipitation / month

Ulan Bator 73 mm (July), 1 mm (Jan)

Average / day

Ulan Bator 16 °C (July), -20 °C (Jan)

  1. Estimation 2017Sources

2010

November

MPRP renames

During the party congress, the MPRP changes its name to the Mongolian People’s Party (MPP).

April

Big demonstrations against corruption

Thousands of people are demonstrating in the capital, demanding that Parliament be dissolved because promises were made not to fight corruption and distribute profits from mineral resources fairly.

New leader for MPRP

Prime Minister Süchbaataryn Batbold becomes the new leader of the Mongolian Revolutionary Party (MPRP).

February

Hard winter kills cattle

An unusually cold winter hits hard on livestock breeding. Nearly a fifth of the livestock in the herds die. The UN is setting up a relief program to support shepherds and others affected.

January

Death sentences turn into prison

President Elbegdorzh converts all death sentences to 30 years in prison.