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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 .
Over 40% of the world’s borders today were drawn as a result of British and French imperialism. The British and French drew the modern borders of the Middle East, the borders of Africa, and in Asia after the independence of the British Raj and French Indochina and the borders of Europe after World War I as victors, as a result of the Paris ...
Border with Russia at the Sea of Japan coast: 130°40′E 19 East Timor: Island of Jaco, Lautém District: 127°19′E 20 Philippines: Pusan Point, Caraga, Davao Oriental: 126°34′E 21 Taiwan: Mianhua Islet, Keelung: 122°06′E 22 Mongolia: Border with the People's Republic of China, Dornod Province: 119°56′E 23 Malaysia: Eastern cape of ...
Distinct Land Borders: Refers to the number of separate geographic boundaries a country shares with its neighbors. A single country may have multiple distinct land borders with the same neighbour (e.g., due to enclaves, exclaves, or disconnected regions). Distinct Land Neighbours: Refers to the number of unique countries a nation borders via land.
The Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats after World War I, and the recent collapse of Syria has led to calls for the region to be divided according to ...
Mongolia's largest lake by volume of water, Lake Khövsgöl, drains via the Selenge river to the Arctic Ocean. One of the most easterly lakes of Mongolia, Hoh Nuur, at an elevation of 557 metres, is the lowest point in the country. [7] In total, the lakes and rivers of Mongolia cover 10,560 square kilometres, or 0.67% of the country. [1]
It borders Russia to the north and China to the south. Ulaanbaatar , the capital and largest city, is home to about 38% of the population. At 1,564,116 square kilometres (603,909 sq mi), Mongolia is the nineteenth largest , and the most sparsely populated independent country in the world with a population of around 2.9 million people.
The China–Mongolia border is the international border between China and Mongolia. It runs from west to east between the two tripoints with Russia for 4,630 km (2,880 mi), with most of the boundary area lying in the Gobi Desert. [1] It is the world's fourth longest international border. [2]