( 2004 ), two out of a sample of sixteen ( or 12. 5 %) Ainu men have been found to belong to Haplogroup C3, which is the most common Y-chromosome haplogroup among the indigenous populations of the Russian Far East and Mongolia.

In 960, the Song Dynasty gained power over most of China and established its capital in Kaifeng ( later known as Bianjing ), starting a period of economic prosperity, while the Khitan Liao Dynasty ruled over Manchuria, present-day Mongolia, and parts of Northern China.

However, most of the Mongols returned to Mongolia, retaining their language and culture.

In the most recent census in Mongolia, almost forty percent of the population reported as being atheist, while the majority religion was Buddhism, with 53 %.

Mongolia is the most sparsely populated independent country in the world.

As of 2012, most airports of 21 aimag centers of Mongolia have paved runways.

It also covers most of Sweden, Finland, much of Norway, lowland / coastal areas of Iceland, much of Russia from St. Petersburg in the west to the Pacific ocean ( including much of Siberia ), northern Kazakhstan, northern Mongolia, and northern Japan ( on the island of Hokkaidō ).

His encyclopedic knowledge of a wide range of cultures from Mongolia to China to the Steppes of Central Eurasia to Persia, the Arab lands, and Europe, provide the most direct access to information on the late Mongol era.

* The Khalkha submit to the Manchu invaders, bringing most of modern-day Mongolia under the rule of the Qing dynasty.

The oldest, called simply the Mongolian script, has been the predominant script during most of Mongolian history, and is still in active use today in the Inner Mongolia region of China.

Green parties now exist in most countries with democratic systems: from Canada to Peru ; from Norway to South Africa ; from Ireland to Mongolia.

* " Inner Mongolia ": This region corresponded to most of modern Inner Mongolia and some neighbouring areas in Liaoning and Jilin provinces.

Today, throat singing is found throughout the country and Mongolia is often considered as the most active place of throat singing in the world.

Within Taiwan, there is a distinction between the positions of the Kuomintang ( KMT ): the Kuomintang also believes in the " One China Principle " and maintains its claim that under the ROC Constitution ( passed by the Kuomintang government in 1947 in Nanjing ) the ROC has sovereignty over most of China ( including by their interpretation both mainland China and Taiwan ) and, according to some interpretations of that constitution, Mongolia.

The Zanabazar Museum of Fine Arts contains a large collection of Mongolian art, including works of the 17th century sculptor / artist Zanabazar, as well as Mongolia's most famous painting, One Day In Mongolia by B. Sharav.

Ulan Bator is connected by road to most of the major towns in Mongolia, but most roads in Mongolia are unpaved and unmarked and road travel can be difficult.

Patronymic name conventions are similar in some other nations, including Malaysia ( see Malaysian name ) and other Muslim countries, among most people of the Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala ( unlike another Indian state Andhra Pradesh, where ancestral origin village names have become surnames for the people ), in Mongolia and in the Scottish Gaelic personal naming system.

The highest peak is Mount Wutai ( Wutai Shan ) in northeastern Shanxi with an altitude of 3058 m. The Great Wall of China forms most of the northern border with Inner Mongolia.

Russian gauge or CIS gauge is the second most widely used gauge in the world, and spans the whole of the former Soviet Union / CIS bloc including the Baltic states and Mongolia.

It used most of the same administrative divisions as the Qing Dynasty but divided Inner Mongolia into four provinces and set up several Yuan-controlled municipalities.

The best-known member of this language family, Mongolian, is the primary language of most of the residents of Mongolia and the Mongolian residents of Inner Mongolia, China with an estimated 5. 2 million speakers.

Film critic David Thomson has stated: " Marker told me himself that Mongolia is correct.

SuperVision is the first digital cable television in Mongolia and other CATVs are planning to launch digital cable television with CA systems.

This is consistent with " the cult of heavenly ordained rule " which was a pivotal element of the Turko-Mongol political culture and were inherited by the Göktürks from their predecessors in Mongolia.

In Egypt, 4000-year-old carvings feature teams with sticks and a projectile, hurling dates to before 1272 BC in Ireland, and there is a depiction from c. 600 BC in Ancient Greece where the game may have been called kerētízein or kerhtízein ( κερητίζειν ) because it was played with a horn or horn-like stick ( kéras, κέρας ) In Inner Mongolia, China, the Daur people have been playing beikou, a game similar to modern field hockey, for about 1, 000 years.

Less than a seventh the size of Mongolia, at 199, 951 square kilometers, Kyrgyzstan is one of the smaller Central Asian states.

At this time, there is not a single nation on earth except China that will sincerely develop Mongolia and Tibet.

The contiguous territories inhabited by ethnic Mongols is also known as Greater Mongolia.

Mongolia is a landlocked country in Northern Asia, strategically located between China and Russia.

The Hüiten Peak in extreme western Mongolia on the Chinese border is the highest point ( 4, 374 metres ).

Much of eastern Mongolia is occupied by a plain, and the lowest area is a southwest-to-northeast trending depression that reaches from the Gobi Desert region in the south to the eastern frontier.

Mongolia is high, cold, and dry.

Most of Mongolia is covered by discontinuous permafrost ( grading to continuous at high altitudes ), which makes construction, road building, and mining difficult.

Much of central and western Mongolia, including Ulaanbaatar, is antipodal to southern Patagonia.

This article is about the demographic features of the population of Mongolia, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

Mining is the principal industrial activity in Mongolia, making up 30 % of all Mongolian industry.

Mongolia is the world's second largest producer of cashmere, with the main company, Gobi Cashmere, accounting for 21 % of world cashmere production as of 2006.

They state that Mongolia is set to become the new Asian Tiger, or " Mongolian Wolf " as they prefer, and are " unstoppable ".

* Trade and Development Bank-TDB was formed in 1990 and is thus the oldest bank in Mongolia.

Because Mongolia is sparsely populated and a significant portion of the population still lives a nomadic lifestyle, it has been difficult for many traditional ICTs to make headway into Mongolian society.

Wireless local loop is another technology that has helped Mongolia increase accessibility to telecommunications and bypass fixed-line infrastructure.

Other problems relating to the ICT infrastructure include poverty and the fact that Mongolia is a landlocked country.

Mongolia relies on fiber optic communications with its Chinese and Russian neighbors and a significant portion of the population is still too poor to afford mobile phones.

The Mongolia Telecom Company is the national telecommunications company.