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  2. Mongolian–Manchurian grassland - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Eurasian Steppe - Wikipedia

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    The Eurasian Steppe, also called the Great Steppe or The Steppes, is the vast steppe ecoregion of Eurasia in the temperate grasslands, savannas and shrublands biome. It stretches through Hungary , Bulgaria , Romania , Moldova , Ukraine , southern Russia , Kazakhstan , Xinjiang , Mongolia and Manchuria , with one major exclave , the Pannonian ...

  4. Steppe - Wikipedia

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    In physical geography, a steppe (/ s t ɛ p /) is an ecoregion characterized by grassland plains without closed forests except near rivers and lakes. [1] Steppe biomes may include: the montane grasslands and shrublands biome; the tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome; the temperate grasslands, savannas, and ...

  5. Selenge–Orkhon forest steppe - Wikipedia

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    The ecoregion spans roughly 1,000 km, from the Khan-Khokhi mountains in the Baruunturuun district of western Mongolia, to Ulan-Ude, the capital city of Buryatia in Russia, just east of Lake Baikal. Along the way it passes through the drainage basin of the upper Selenge River and its tributaries, the valley of the Orkhon River , and along the ...

  6. Daurian forest steppe - Wikipedia

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    The Daurian forest steppe ecoregion (WWF ID: PA0804) is a band of grassland, shrub terrain, and mixed forests in northeast Mongolia and the region of Siberia, Russia that follows the course of the Onon River and Ulz River, and part of the northwestern China.

  7. Geography of Mongolia - Wikipedia

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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 ]

  8. In an earlier era, the fierce nomadic tribes of the Mongolian steppe wer. Mongolia, where parliamentary elections were being held Friday, is a sparsely populated and landlocked Asian nation known ...

  9. Ordos Desert - Wikipedia

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    The Ordos Desert forms an intermediate step in the descent from the Himalayas to the lowlands of eastern China.Towards the south it rises to an altitude of over 1,500 m, and in the west, along the right bank of the Yellow River, the Arbus or Arbiso Mountains, which overlie the steppe by some 900 m, serve to link the Helan Mountains with the Yin Mountains.