Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south. It covers an area of 1,564,116 square kilometers (603,909 square miles), with a population of just 3.3 million, making it the world’s most sparsely populated sovereign nation.
Ulaanbaatar, the capital and largest city, is home to roughly half of the country’s population. The Land of the Blue Skies has a widely varied topography and the most dramatic landscapes. Wide, open grasslands or steppe in central Mongolia give way to the Gobi Desert in the South, the Altai mountains in the West, and the Taiga forest to the North.
Mongolia boasts a wide range of birds, fish, and mammals but is probably best known for the Siberian Ibex, Snow Leopard, Gobi Bear, Wild Bactrian Camel, and Przewalski’s Horse.
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