MONGOLIA

AGENDA• LOCATION • GEOGRAPHY• POPULATION• GOVERNMENT• HISTORY• CULTURE

• RELIGION• CLIMATE• ECONOMY• FOREIGN

RELATION• TOURIST

ATTRACTION

LOCATION

• Mountain forest

• Mountain steppe

• Semi desert

• Gobi desert

GEOGRAPHY

POPULATION

• 2,694,432(July 2002 est.)

• Mongol (mostly Khalkha) 85%

• Kazakh7%

• 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

Import

35%

14%8%7%7%

5%

4%

4% 16%

RUSSIA

CHINA

JAPAN

ITALY

U.S.

SOUTH KOREA

GERMANY

SINGAPORE

Others

Export

35%

21%11%

10%

9%6% 5% 3%

SWITZERLAND

CHINA

SOUTH KOREA

RUSSIA

JAPAN

BRITAIN

U.S.

Others

CULTURE

• NATIONAL HOUSE (GER)

• NATIONAL MUSIC

• CLOTHES

• DANCE

• ART

• NAADAM

National house

National music

CL0THES

ART

NAADAM

TOURIST ATTRACTION