Article: Mongolia.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)

Khalkh Mongols are the dominant ethnic group (90 per cent). Other major groups are the Turkic-speaking Kazakhs (four per cent) mainly in the northwest, Chinese (two per cent) and Russian (two per cent). However, more Mongolians live outside Mongolia than in it -- about 3.5 million in China and one million in Russia.

RELIGION: Mainly Tibetan (Lamaist) Buddhist; four per cent Muslim. Religion has seen a phenomenal revival in recent years.

TOPOGRAPHY: Mongolia is the largest landlocked country in the world -- covering 1.565 million sq. km -- and one of the highest, with an average elevation of 1,580m. Its highest peak, Tavanbogd Uul, in the Altai mountains, ...

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