{"id":364125,"date":"2026-06-02T14:52:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T09:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=364125"},"modified":"2026-06-02T14:52:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T09:22:54","slug":"key-facts-about-mongolia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/key-facts-about-mongolia\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts About Mongolia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-box-green\">\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>An Indian Air Force IL-76 strategic airlift aircraft, Gajraj, transported the sacred relics of Arahant Sariputta and Arahant Mahamoggallana from Delhi to Mongolia on 30 May 2026.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\"><strong>About Key Facts About Mongolia<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 345px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.worldatlas.com\/r\/w1200\/upload\/9c\/b9\/05\/mn-01.jpg?resize=345%2C376&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Key facts about Mongolia \" width=\"345\" height=\"376\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: World atlas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location: Mongolia<\/strong> is a <strong>landlocked<\/strong> country located in <strong>East Asia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Bordering\u00a0nations: <\/strong>It is bordered by<strong> two nations:\u00a0<strong>China <\/strong><\/strong>to the <strong><strong>south and Russia <\/strong><\/strong>to\u00a0the <strong>north.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>However, it is<strong> only 37 km from Kazakhstan, <\/strong>but<strong> does not<\/strong> share a border with it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Area:<\/strong> It has an area of <strong>1,564,116 sq. km.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Capital:<\/strong> Its capital, <span id=\"ref1110938\"><\/span><strong>Ulaanbaatar, <\/strong>is in the <strong>north-central part of the country.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Climate:<\/strong> It has a <strong>continental climate, <\/strong>with<strong> long cold winters and short cool-to-hot summers.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Terrain:<\/strong> It features vast areas of <strong>upland steppes, semideserts, and deserts.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Desert:<\/strong> The <strong>Gobi Desert <\/strong>lies across<strong> southern Mongolia<\/strong> and <strong>northwestern China<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>largest desert in Asia and the fifth largest in the world.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mountains: <\/strong> There are <strong>three major mountain chains<\/strong> in Mongolia &#8211;\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Mongolian Altai Mountains<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Khangai Mountains<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Khentii Mountains<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Highest point:<\/strong> The highest point of Mongolia is <strong>Nayramadlin Orgil at 14,350 ft. (4,374 m), found in the rugged Atlay Mountains of the west.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Rivers: \u00a0<\/strong>The <strong>Orkhon River<\/strong> is the<strong> longest river in Mongolia. <\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Kherlen River and Tuul River <\/strong>are other important rivers in Mongolia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lakes:<\/strong> <strong>Hovsgol Nuur<\/strong>, one of<strong> Asia&#8217;s largest freshwater lakes, <\/strong>is located on its <strong>border with the Russia<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Hovsgol Nuur<\/strong> is also the <strong>second-most voluminous in Asia<\/strong>\u00a0and contains nearly <strong>70% of Mongolia&#8217;s freshwater<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Mongolia<strong> experiences frequent earthquakes in its western and northern regions<\/strong>, though its volcanoes are regarded as extinct.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: An Indian Air Force IL-76 strategic airlift aircraft, Gajraj, transported the sacred relics of Arahant Sariputta and Arahant Mahamoggallana from Delhi to Mongolia on 30 May 2026. About Key Facts About Mongolia Location: Mongolia is a landlocked country located in East Asia. Bordering\u00a0nations: It is bordered by two nations:\u00a0China to the south and Russia&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/key-facts-about-mongolia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Key Facts About Mongolia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,12039,11211],"tags":[11872,3590],"class_list":["post-364125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-knolls","category-places-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}