MONGOLIA AGENDA LOCATION GEOGRAPHY

MONGOLIA

AGENDA • • • LOCATION GEOGRAPHY POPULATION GOVERNMENT HISTORY CULTURE • • RELIGION CLIMATE ECONOMY FOREIGN RELATION • TOURIST ATTRACTION

LOCATION

GEOGRAPHY • • Mountain forest Mountain steppe Semi desert Gobi desert

POPULATION • • • 2, 694, 432(July 2002 est. ) Mongol (mostly Khalkha) 85% Kazakh 7% Tungusic Other (including Chinese, and Russian)3, 4%

GOVERNMENT • Parliamentary • 3 Branches – Executive-President – Legislative-State Great Hural – Judicial-Supreme Court

HISTORY • • 1206 -1634 Great Mongol 1691 -1911 Colonization (Empire Manchu) 1911 -1921 Outer Mongolia • 1924 Founded Mongolian People’s Republic and • adopted new Constitution • 1961 Member of UN • 1990 Democratic Revolution • 1992 New Constitution

LANGUAGES AND SCRIPTS • Languages – Mongolian – Kazakh – Russian – English – others • Scripts – Uigur – Cyrillic

RELIGION • • BUDDISM- 90% SHAMANISM- 1% MUSLIM- 4% CHRISTIAN- 5%

CLIMATE • - 4 seasons (long winter) - dry climate - Sharp winds - Clean air - Sunlight Average temperature: Summer +20°C (+70°F) Winter – 22°C (– 14°F

ECONOMY • Facts: Population: 2, 6 mill • GDP: $6, 1 bill • GDP growth rate: 4% • GDP per capita: $2, 320 • GDP composition by sector: • agriculture: 33% • industry: 24% • services: 43%

IMPORT AND EXPORT • Main imports – – Food products Mashinary equipment Cars and fuel Consumer goods • Main exports – Copper concentrate – Animal products – Cashmere and wool

CULTURE • • • NATIONAL HOUSE (GER) NATIONAL MUSIC CLOTHES DANCE ART NAADAM

National house

National music

CL 0 THES

ART

NAADAM

TOURIST ATTRACTION