The Republic of Mongolia is a country in central east Asia. It has a total area of 1,565,000 km2. The climate is desert and continental with large daily and seasonal temperature ranges. The terrain is comprised of a vast semi-desert and desert plains with mountains in the west and south-west and the Gobi Desert in the south-east. Natural resources are coal, copper, molybdenum, tungsten, phosphates, tin, nickel, zinc, wolfram, fluorspar and gold. The religion is predominantly Tibetan Buddhist and about 4% Muslim. The language is Khalkha Mongol used by over 90% of population; minor languages include Turkic, Russian, and Chinese.
Originally Mongolia was inhabited by nomads, until the area was united by Genghis Khan in 1206 and formed part of the MongolEmpire. In 1689 control of Inner Mongolia, the southern part of the country was taken by China, though Outer Mongolia, the northern part of the country remained an autonomous Buddhist monachy. In 1911 Mongolia bacame autonomous, in 1924 forming the Mongolian People's Republic. Research Mongolia
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