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• Population:   2,438,000
• Area   1,565,000 sq km (604,250 sq mi)
• Capital:  Ulaanbaatar 627,000
•  Religion:  Tibetan Buddhist, Muslim
•  Language:  Khalkha Mongol, Turkic, Russian, Chinese
• Literacy  83%
• Life expectancy 61 years
• GDP per capita $2,200
• Industry: copper, construction materials, mining.
• Agriculture: wheat, barley; sheep, goats, cattle, camels, horses.
• Exports: copper, livestock, animal products, cashmere, wool.

    Of Scholarly Interest:

• The Mongolia Society  http://www.indiana.edu/~mongsoc/
• Infosystem Mongolei  http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~corff/infomong.html
• Virtual Mongolia  http://www.kiku.com/electric_samurai/virtual_mongol/index.html
• WWW Virtual Mongolia Library  http://www.indiana.edu/~mongsoc/vl.html
• CACCP Free Inner Mongolia Webpage http://www.caccp.org/im/
• Paul Hallsall's very cool Chinese Culture site  http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/
• Center for the Study of Eurasian Nomads  http://www.csen.org/
• Internet East Asian History Sourcebook  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/eastasia/eastasiasbook.html
• Mongolia Home Page (law, economy, culture, and politics of Mongolia http://www.indiana.edu/~mongsoc/mongolia.html
• Narantsetseg's very good Bibliography  http://hometown.aol.com/noramunro/MongolBib/index.htm
• The China Resource Page  http://www.uakron.edu/worldciv/china
• Mongolian Languages  http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/countries/Mong.html

• Daily Life of the Mongols  http://www.indiana.edu/~mongsoc/mong/daily.htm
• Basic Mongolian Phrases  http://www.mongoliatoday.com/info/basic_mongolian.html
• Traditional Behaviors htttp://www.un-mongolia.mn/ger-mag/ger-5.htm#Cultural
• Mongol Herders  http://www.ezlink.com/~culturev/herders.html
• Visit a Mongolian Home  http://www.thecoo.edu/~haroldc/mongol/album/home.html
• Mongolian Shamanism  http://www.shamanicdimensions.com/ethnosha/mongol.html
• Marriage Mongolian Style  http://www.un-mongolia.mn/ger-mag/issue3/marriage.htm
• The Nadaam Festival  http://www.nomads.mn/TheNadaamFestival.htm
• Tsagan Saar: the Lunar New Year  http://www.mongoliatoday.com/issue/2/tsagaan_sar_1.html
• Mongolian Wrestling  http://www.mongolwrestling.f2s.com/
• Traditional Mongolian Children's Activities  http://www.un-mongolia.mn/ger-mag/ger-5.htm#Activities

• Mongol Dominions, 1300-1405 From Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd, 1923. http://www.uakron.edu/worldciv/china/map1.jpg
• The Mongol Khans   http://www.friesian.com/mongol.htm
  
• Medieval Mongolian Names by Baras-aghur Naran http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/baras-aghur/mongolian.html
• Summoning the Soul: a song  http://www.ezlink.com/~culturev/summon.htm
• Namgar's Traditional Mongolian and Buryat Music   http://www.lunarpages.com/namgar/  
• Women of the Mongol Court: a Lecture by Morris Rossabi   http://www.woodrow.org/teachers/world-history/teaching/mongol/women.html
  
• Women in Mongolian History by Per Inge Oestmoen  http://www.coldsiberia.org/monwomen.htm
• Exhibit of Mongolian Artifacts  http://www.asianart.com/mongolia/index.html
• Modern Mongolia: Reclaiming Genghis Khan (Exhibit at U.Penn )   http://www.upenn.edu/museum/Mongolia/section6.html
  
• Inner Mongolia Museum   http://www.ezlink.com/~culturev/museum.html
• Jangar: A Mongolian Cultural Epic  http://www.ezlink.com/~culturev/jangar.html
• Mongol Mythology  http://www.ezlink.com/~culturev/CulturMythology.htm
• Tuvan Folktales   http://www.fotuva.org/misc/tales.html
• A Kalmyk Tale  http://biehn.com/gw3.htm
• Kirghiz Oral Literature   http://students.washington.edu/elmira/kproverbs.html
• The Musical Nomad   http://www.bbc.co.uk/nomad/
• The Story of the Morin Khuur  http://www.mongols.com/storymkh.htm
  

• Mongolian Foods and a Recipe for Buuz  http://www.un-mongolia.mn/ger-mag/issue2/food.htm
• Mongolian Main Dishes  http://asiarecipe.com/monmain.html
• More Mongolian Recipes  http://mongolia.worldvision.org.nz/mongoliarecipes.html
• Dining Out in Mongolia Today  http://www.mongoliatoday.com/info/dining_out.html
• Mongol Food Folklore   http://baatar.freeyellow.com/story1.html

• Mongolian Women's Festival Costume  http://www3.uakron.edu/worldciv/russ/minority.html#mongol
  
• Del: Traditional Mongolian Dress  http://www.un-mongolia.mn/ger-mag/ger-5.htm#Del
• Handmade clothing from Mongolia  http://www.elegantnomad.com/
• Traditional Costumes of the Mongolian People's Republic http://www.ibelgique.com/mongolia///ncmpr/ncmpr.htm
• Buryat Traditional Clothing  http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/8226/huvtsas.html
• Mongolian Folk costumes  http://www.ezlink.com/~culturev/people.html
• Mongolian Hats & Accessories  http://www.ezlink.com/~culturev/hats.html
• Keri-je's articles on the making of Mongolian dels http://www.9v.com/crystal/kerij-e/docs/del.htm
• Chinese knot buttons by Keri-je  http://www.9v.com/crystal/kerij-e/docs/knots.htm

• What is a Ger?  http://www.un-mongolia.mn/ger-mag/ger-5.htm#Ger
• Mira's links to Yurt info  http://www.teleport.com/~tguptill/tentlinks2.htm#yurts/gersandtibetan
• Yurt Quest  http://www.chaingang.org/yurtquest/
• The Construction of a Yurt   http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/articles/yurt/
• Woodland Yurts  http://www.woodlandyurts.freeserve.co.uk
• Mongolian Tents / Buddhist Temple, Ethnographic Museum, Stockholm  http://www.etnografiska.se/etnoweb/mongtent.htm
  
• (Corun's Yurt pages are currently under reconstruction--watch this space for further deveplopments...)

• Sarangerel's Buryat Shamanism Homepage  http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/8226/
• A Brief History of the Uyghers  http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1730/buh.html
• Chen Jiqun's paintings from the Ujumchin Banner, Inner Mongolia http://163art.com/english.htm
• Ujumchin Tribe and East Ujumchin Banner http://163art.com/wuzhumuqin_engli.htm
• Friends of Tuva  http://www.fotuva.org/
• Oyunbilig's Great Mongol Home Page  http://www.mongols.com/
• The Silver Horde  http://www.viahistoria.com/silverhorde/index.html
• Ogedei's Resource Pages for SCA Mongols  http://members.tripod.com/mongolian_page/index.html
• The Dark Horde Moritu   http://www.moritu.net
  

• Mongolian Peoples Republic Government page http://www.pmis.gov.mn/engmain.htm
• United Nations Updates on Mongolia http://www.un-mongolia.mn/mongolia/index.html
• Voice of Mongolia  http://www.mongol.net/vom/
• Ger Magazine  http://www.un-mongolia.mn/ger-mag/
• Mongolia Today Online Magazine  http://www.mongoliatoday.com/index.html
• Gobi Business News http://www.gbn.mn/se11/gbn.htm

• Rogier Gruys' Impressions from Mongolia  http://www.bluepeak.net/mongolia/
• Boojum Expeditions to Mongolia  http://boojum.com/photographs.html
• Nomads trips and tours  http://www.nomads.mn/NomadsHome.htm
• Travel the Silk Road http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~pamlogan/srart.html
• Lost Cities of the Silk Road   http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~pamlogan/silkroad/index.html