Country code: MN
Location: Northern Asia, between China and Russia
Area: total: 1.565 million sq km (water: 9,600
sq km; land: 1,555,400 sq km)
Population: 2,712,315 (July 2003 est.)
Capital: Ulaanbaatar
Languages: Khalkha Mongol 90%, Turkic, Russian
Currency: togrog
Religions: Tibetan Buddhist Lamaism 96%, Muslim
(primarily in the southwest), Shamanism, and Christian 4%
Industries: construction materials, mining (coal,
copper, molybdenum, fluorspar, and gold); oil; food and beverages,
processing of animal products
Agriculture - products: wheat, barley, potatoes,
forage crops, sheep, goats, cattle, camels, horses
Exports - commodities: copper, livestock, animal
products, cashmere, wool, hides, fluorspar, other nonferrous metals
Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment,
fuels, food products, industrial consumer goods, chemicals, building
materials, sugar, tea