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Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia, located between China and Russia. The terrain is one of mountains and rolling plateaus , with a high degree of relief. [ 2 ] The total land area of Mongolia is 1,564,116 square kilometres. [ 3 ]
An enlargeable map of Mongolia. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Mongolia: Mongolia is a landlocked sovereign state in East Asia. It borders Russia to the north and China to the south. Ulaanbaatar, the capital and largest city, is home to about 38% of the population.
The Mongolian-Manchurian grassland (Chinese: 蒙古高原草原-内蒙古草原-东北草原) covers an area of 887,300 square kilometers (342,600 sq mi).This temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands ecoregion of the Palearctic realm forms a large crescent around the Gobi Desert, extending across central and eastern Mongolia into the eastern portion of Inner Mongolia and eastern and ...
Sand dunes in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China Flaming Cliffs in Mongolia Sacred ovoo in the Gobi Desert The sand dunes of Khongoryn Els, Gurvansaikhan NP, Mongolia Remnants of the Great Wall of China in the Gobi Desert. The Gobi is overall a cold desert, with frost and occasionally snow occurring on its dunes. Besides being quite far ...
Gobi Desert (45 P) Pages in category "Deserts of Mongolia" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D.
The Ordos comprises two sub-deserts: the Kubuqi Desert in the north east; and the Mu Us Desert in the south. The northern portion goes by another name—for example, a map in Julia Lovell's book The Great Wall: China Against the World 1000 BC–2000 AD shows the Ordos Desert only in the portion of Inner Mongolia which lies south of the Yellow ...
The name Mongolia means the "Land of the Mongols" in Latin. The Mongolian word "Mongol" (монгол) is of uncertain etymology.Sükhbataar (1992) and de la Vaissière (2021) proposed it being a derivation from Mugulü, the 4th-century founder of the Rouran Khaganate, [13] first attested as the 'Mungu', [14] (Chinese: 蒙兀, Modern Chinese Měngwù, Middle Chinese Muwngu), [15] a branch of ...
Image Area (km 2) Area (sq mi) Location [note 1] Nation(s) 1: Antarctic Desert: Polar ice and tundra ... China and Mongolia: 7: Kalahari Desert: Subtropical