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Mongolia
[mong-goh-lee-uh, mon-]
noun
a region in Asia including Inner Mongolia of China and the Mongolian People's Republic.
Also Nei Monggol. Inner Mongolia.
Outer Mongolia, former name of Mongolian People's Republic.
Mongolia
/ ɒŋˈɡəʊɪə /
noun
Former names: Outer Mongolia. Mongolian People's Republic.a republic in E central Asia: made a Chinese province in 1691; became autonomous in 1911 and a republic in 1924; multiparty democracy introduced in 1990. It consists chiefly of a high plateau, with the Gobi Desert in the south, a large lake district in the northwest, and the Altai and Khangai Mountains in the west Official language: Khalkha. Religion: nonreligious majority. Currency: tugrik. Capital: Ulan Bator. Pop: 3 226 516 (2013 est). Area: 1 565 000 sq km (604 095 sq miles)
a vast region of central Asia, inhabited chiefly by Mongols: now divided into the republic of Mongolia, Inner Mongolia (the Mongol Autonomous Region of China), and the Tuva Republic of S Russia; at its height during the 13th century under Genghis Khan
Example Sentences
I'm just back from Mongolia, a competitive democracy in between Russia on one hand and China on the other.
The two partial skeletons that the team examined in this study were first discovered in Mongolia back in the early 1970s.
According to Transparency International, a watchdog, Mongolia has seen worsening corruption since Oyun-Erdene came into power.
A robotic arm drilled into the soil to collect 2kg of material, which was brought back to Earth in a capsule which landed in Inner Mongolia.
In a visit to Inner Mongolia in 1992, the late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, who oversaw China's economic reform, famously said: "The Middle East has oil and China has rare earths".
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