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Mongolian Plateau. The Mongolian Plateau is an inland plateau in Asia that lies between 37°46′-53°08′N and 87°40′-122°15′E [citation needed] and has an area of approximately 3,200,000 square kilometres (1,200,000 sq mi) [citation needed]. It is bounded by the Greater Hinggan Mountains in the east, the Yin Mountains to the south, the ...
Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia, located between China and Russia. The terrain is one of mountains and rolling plateaus, with a high degree of relief. [2] The total land area of Mongolia is 1,564,116 square kilometres. [3] Overall, the land slopes from the high Altai Mountains of the west and the north to plains and depressions in ...
Mongolia[ b ] is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south. It covers an area of 1,564,116 square kilometres (603,909 square miles), with a population of 3.5 million, making it the world's most sparsely populated sovereign state. Mongolia is the world's largest landlocked country that does not ...
Mongolia has complicated tectonic and structural geology, belonging to the Mongolian-Okhotsk Mobile Zone, between the Siberian Platform and Chinese Platform.The basement rocks formed during the Paleozoic in the Precambrian as Riphean age ophiolite formations experienced rifting from 1.7 to 1.6 billion years ago and again around 800 million years ago.
Eastern Gobi desert steppe, the easternmost of the Gobi ecoregions, covering an area of 281,800 km 2 (108,804 sq mi). It extends from the Inner Mongolian Plateau in China northward into Mongolia. It includes the Yin Mountains and many low-lying areas with salt pans and small ponds.
History of Mongolia. Various nomadic empires, including the Xiongnu (3rd century BC–1st century AD), the Xianbei state (c. AD 93–234), the Rouran Khaganate (330–555), the First (552–603) and Second Turkic Khaganates (682–744) and others, ruled the area of present-day Mongolia. The Khitan people, who used a para-Mongolic language, [1 ...
The Mongol heartland[ 1] or Mongolian heartland[ 2] refers to the contiguous geographical area in which the Mongol people have primarily lived, [ 3] especially in history books. It is generally considered to comprise the Mongolian Plateau and some adjacent territories, although its exact extent has been changing over the course of history ...
Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of text in Mongolian script. Inner Mongolia, [a] officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, [b] is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. Its border includes two-thirds of the length of China's border with the country of Mongolia.