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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 Altai Mountains to ...
Geography of Mongolia. 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 ...
The whole of Mongolia is considered to be part of the Mongolian Plateau. The highest point in Mongolia is the Khüiten Peak in the Tavan bogd massif in the far west at 4,374 m (14,350 ft). The basin of the Uvs Lake, shared with Tuva Republic in Russia, is a natural World Heritage Site.
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.
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.
Mongolia has six sites on the list. The first site, the Uvs Nuur Basin, was listed in 2003. The most recent site, the Deer Stone Monuments and Related Bronze Age Sites, was listed in 2023. Two sites are natural and transnational sites shared with Russia. The other four sites are cultural.
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 ...
Mongolia plateau during early 17th century Inner Mongolia and Outer Mongolia within the Qing dynasty, c. 1820 "Outer Mongolia": This region corresponds to the modern state of Mongolia , plus the Russian-administered region of Tannu Uriankhai , and modern-day aimag of Bayan-Ölgii which historically was a part of northern Xinjiang under China's ...