Mongolia

Population: 2,654,999 (July 2001 est.)

Languages: Khalkha Mongol 90%, Turkic, Russian (1999)

Background: Long a province of China, Mongolia won its independence in 1921 with Soviet backing. A communist regime was installed in 1924. During the early 1990s, the ex-communist Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP) gradually yielded its monopoly on...

Currency: togrog/tugrik (MNT, No information)

Data from CIA World Factbook. Click on CIA link for more. Click on map or flag for larger images.