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7 unusual facts about Mongolia


Far Eastern Front in the Russian Civil War

The fighting forces on the Communist side were the Red Army, Kuban Cossacks, Communist Mongolian militias, and the Far Eastern Republic.

Japanese tree frog

The Japanese tree frog (Hyla japonica) is a species of tree frog distributed from Hokkaidō to Yakushima in Japan and from Korea along the Ussuri River to northeastern China, northern Mongolia, and the southern Russian Far East.

Joseph Caron

Caron served as Canada’s ambassador to China (2001 to 2005), with concurrent accreditation to North Korea and Mongolia, and was ambassador to Japan until the fall of 2008 when he was appointed High Commissioner to India with concurrent accreditation as Ambassador to Nepal and Bhutan.

Mongolian records in athletics

The following are the national records in athletics in Mongolia maintained by the Mongolian Athletic Federation (MAF).

Nerchinsk katorga

Nerchinsk katorga (Russian: Нерчинская каторга, Nerchinskaya katorga) was a katorga system of the Russian Empire in the Nerchinsk okrug of Transbaikalia (today's Chita Oblast), between rivers Shilka and Argun, near the border to Mongolia, in the 18th to 20th centuries.

Nissan Pao

According to the article on Japanese Wikipedia, the name is a Chinese word describing a type of house used by nomads in Mongolia for assembly or meetings.

Ultimatum game

For example, researchers have found that Mongolian proposers tend to offer even splits despite knowing that very unequal splits are almost always accepted.


Afanasevo culture

The culture became known from excavations in the Minusinsk area of the Krasnoyarsk Krai, southern Siberia, but the culture was also widespread in western Mongolia, northern Xinjiang, and eastern and central Kazakhstan, with connections or extensions in Tajikistan and the Aral area.

Altai Snowcock

Its range includes in Russia the mountainous regions near Abakan, Sayan Mountains and the Tannu-Ola Mountains; and in Mongolia, the Mongolian Altai, the Govi-Altai, the Khangai Mountains, and the mountains east of Lake Khuvsgul.

Altanbulag, Selenge

Altanbulag began as a trading outpost across the Kyakhta River from the Russian town of Kyakhta during Qing Empire rule of Mongolia.

Amarkhuu Borkhuu

When he was a child his parents moved from Mongolia to Ulan-Ude, Buryatia in Russia.

Amédée Forestier

Baddeley, John F. Russia, Mongolia, China .... (Macmillan and Company, 1919).

Andrey II of Vladimir

In 1247, when their father died, Andrey and Alexander went to Karakorum in Mongolia, where Andrey was appointed the next Grand Duke of Vladimir by Guyuk khan.

Asia Security Conference

18 countries represented at the ministerial-level: Korea, Australia, Cambodia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Aufeis

In late 2011, Mongolia will test the use and storage of artificial naleds as a way of cooling Ulan Bator in the hot Mongolian summer, and reducing the use of energy-intensive air conditioning.

Balingiin Tserendorj

In the face of Chinese threats to exile the Bogd Khan, Tserendorj, Prime Minister Gonchigjalzangiin Badamdorj and the Bogd Khan agreed to sign a document “voluntarily” abdicating Mongolia's autonomy to Chinese rule.

Bayar Dovdoi

He obtained PhD degree in the theme of “Stone sculptures of Eastern Mongolia”, and ScD degree in the theme of “Human Statues in Mongolian territory”.

Bombus soroeensis

In the west its distribution reaches the British mainland (including Skye and some minor Scottish islands, but excluding Ireland and the major Scottish islands), while in the east it extends to Lake Baykal in central Siberia, Mongolia, and, in the south-east, Anatolia and the northern Iranian mountains.

Buyant

Buyant, Bayan-Ölgii, a sum (district) in Bayan-Ölgii Province, western Mongolia

Ceke

Ceke, Inner Mongolia, a town in Ejin Banner, on the border with Outer Mongolia and the terminus of the Jiayuguan–Ceke Railway and the Linhe–Ceke Railway.

Christianity in Inner Mongolia

According to Tjalling Halbertsma, Christians used to live in Inner Mongolia before 1206.

Christianity in Mongolia

Foreign Christian missionary groups have returned to Mongolia, including Roman Catholics, Lutherans, Russian Orthodox, Presbyterians, Seventh-day Adventists, various evangelical Protestant groups, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and Jehovah's Witnesses.

Crataegus sanguinea

Crataegus sanguinea (common names Redhaw Hawthorn or Siberian hawthorn) is a species of hawthorn that is native to southern Siberia, Mongolia, and the extreme north of China.

Dagur

the Daur people, also known as Dagur, Daγur, or Daguur, an ethnic group mostly living in Inner Mongolia, China;

Edward Delmar Morgan

Morgan put is translating skills to work in 1876, and translated Colonel Nikolay Przhevalsky’s Mongolia, the Tangut Country and the Solitudes of Northern Tibet from Russian, edited by Sir Henry Yule.

Gungsangnorbu

In 1912, in the aftermath of the Xinhai Revolution, Gungsangnorbu made some attempts to form an alliance with Bogd Khan and the Khalkha Mongols in the newly independent state of Mongolia, with the Pan-Mongolist aim of annexing China's Inner Mongolian territories to an independent, Mongol-dominated Greater Mongolia.

Isabelline Wheatear

This extends from Southern Russia, the Caspian region, the Kyzyl Kum Desert and Mongolia to Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan and Israel.

Joseph Edward Lake

Joseph Edward Lake (born October 18, 1941) is an American career diplomat who, in 1990, became the first resident U.S. Ambassador to the Mongolian People's Republic (the first U.S. ambassador to Mongolia, Richard L. Williams, was not a resident there).

K. David Harrison

Harrison has done field work on endangered languages in Siberia and Mongolia Tuvan, Tsengel Tuvan, Tofa, Ös, Tuha, Monchak, Munda, and also in Paraguay, Chile, Papua New Guinea, and India.

Kazaks

Kazakhs (qazaq), an ethnic group of Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and Turkey

Kharkhorin Rock

Kharkhorin Rock, also Kharkarin Rock or Phallic Rock, is a large statue of a penis raised on a platform on the steppe, located near Erdene Zuu Monastery (part of the World Heritage Site entitled Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape) in Kharkhorin, Övörkhangai Province of Mongolia.

Khingan

Greater Khingan, volcanic mountain range in Inner Mongolia, China

Khoit Tsenkher Cave Rock Art

The Khoit Tsenkher Cave Rock Paintings are found in Mankhan Sum, Khovd Province, Mongolia.

Khotogoid

The most famous ruler of Khotogoids probably was Ubashi Huang Taizi also known as Altan Khan of Khotogoid (not to be confused with Altan Khan of Tumed) who was successful in subjecting Yenissei Kyrgyz and pushing Oirats out of their domains in western Mongolia.

Kidan

Khitan people, ancient nomadic people, originally located at Mongolia and Manchuria

Linton, West Yorkshire

Owen Lattimore (1900-1989), eminent American scholar of Mongolia and China, and Central Asia generally, lived in the village for a time during the 1960s while he was the first Professor of Chinese at the University of Leeds.

Melvyn Goldstein

He has also conducted research in India (with Tibetan refugees in Bylakuppe), in northwest Nepal (with a Tibetan border community in Limi), in western Mongolia (with a nomadic pastoral community in Khovd Province) and in inland China (with Han Chinese on modernization and the elderly).

Michael Succow

After 1990, Succow did consulting work in a number of former Warsaw Pact countries as well as in Central Asia and East Asia resulting in the designation of nature reservations (including a number of UNESCO world nature heritage sites) in Kamchatka, the Lena river delta, Karelia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, Georgia, Russia and Belarus.

Min-Keun Oh

In 1980, he won another silver at the Asian Amateur Boxing Championships held in Bombay, India, losing a split decision to 1982 World Championship silver medalist Rawsalyn Otgonbayar of Mongolia in the final match.

Mongol language

Mongolic languages, a group of languages spoken in East-Central Asia, mostly in Mongolia and surrounding areas

Mongolia men's national under-18 ice hockey team

The Mongolia men's national under-18 ice hockey team played its first game in 2000 against New Zealand during the 2000 IIHF Asian Oceanic Junior U18 Championship Division II tournament being held in Bangkok, Thailand.

Mongolians in India

Penor Rinpoche's Kunzang Palyul Choling, in partnership with the Khamariin Khiid in Sainshand Sum, Dornogovi Province, Mongolia, began sponsoring Mongolians to study Buddhism in India at the Namdroling Monastery in Bylakuppe in 2005.

Mongolicosa mongolensis

Mongolicosa mongolensis is a species of wolf spider only known from Gurvanbulag district, Bayankhongor Province, Mongolia.

Natsagiin Udval

Incumbent President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, candidate of Democratic Party won at 2013 Mongolian presidential election on June 26, 2013 with 50.23 percent of total votes while Mongolian People's Party candidate Badmaanyambuugiin Bat-Erdene got 41.97 percent, and Natsagiin Udval got 6.5 percent of total votes.

Nomadicare

Nomadicare's founder Sas Carey began traveling to Mongolia in 1994 and studying traditional Mongolian medicine, a health system with roots in Ayurvedic and Tibetan medicine.

Outer Mongolia

There was and is some confusion about whether Outer Mongolia only consisted of the four Khalkha aimags (Setsen Khan Aimag, Tüsheet Khan Aimag, Sain Noyon Khan Aimag and Zasagt Khan Aimag), or of Khalkha plus Oyirad areas Khovd and Tannu Uriankhai.

Phragmatobia fuliginosa

Phragmatobia fuliginosa pulverulenta (Alpheraky, 1889) (China: eastern Xinjiang, Qinghai, Nei Mongol; southern aimaks of Mongolia; south-eastern Kazakhstan, partly)

Polish–Mongolian literary relations

The first nineteenth-century Polish traveler to Mongolia was Jan Potocki (1761–1815), who visited Mongolia during his journey to China and wrote a travel report in French (Polish translation Podróże, 1959).

Russian Caravan

The southern route by Odessa is far cheaper, but the tea is supposed to suffer in flavour in its transit through the tropical seas, while it improves in its passage through the cold dry climate of Mongolia and Siberia, by losing that unpleasant taste of firing whereby tea was dried using direct heat.

Sanjaasürengiin Zorig

Zorig's grandfather was a Russian geographer who had come to Mongolia as part of an expedition headed by Pyotr Kozlov.

Simon Willson

Traveling with a group of more than 20 performers and crew performing in 81 large nightclubs and discos in 33 Major Chinese cities including Hong Kong, Chengdu, Shanghai, Dongguan, Shenzen, Shantou, Guangzhou, Beijing and Harbin nearly all the way to Mongolia.

Stefan Heidemann

Co-operation with several archaeological missions especially in Syria among them at the citadels in Aleppo, Damascus and Masyaf, urban sites such as ar-Raqqa, and Kharab Sayyar, but also in Portugal, Mongolia, and Afghanistan Balkh.

Turquoise Hill Resources

Its focus is on the pacific rim where it is in the process of developing several large mines, the principal one being the Oyu Tolgoi Project in Southern Mongolia 200 km east of Dalanzadgad.

Yapon Danzan

In 1932 Danzan was caught up in a widescale purge of suspected rightwingers (mostly politicians who voiced concerns with growing Soviet influence in Mongolia) that included Tseveen Jamsrano, Tseren-Ochiryn Dambadorj, and N. Jadamba.

Zhonghua minzu

For instance, the idea of Chinggis Khan as a "national hero" is contested by Mongolia, which since the fall of socialism has explicitly positioned Chinggis Khan as the father of the Mongolian state.


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