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Mongolia

> **Currency:** tögrög Nadamm
 * **Major Government** :mixed parliamentary/presidential
 * **Major Religions** :50%buddhism 40%not following a religion 6%shamanist and christian then 4%muslim
 * **Languages Spoken:**Khalkha Mongolian
 * **Current leader or president:**Elbegdorj Tsakhia
 * **Brief history of the country including any important people and major wars:**3rd century B.C. - Iron weapons were used,2d-1st centuries B.C. - Nomads traveld west, 1209-15 - Mongols took over beijing to yhe south, 1231 - Korea invaded ,
 * **Major cultural traditions (holidays/ foods etc..):Tsagaan Sar (the white month)**, **Tsagaan Sar** plate , Nadamm (summer festival)
 * **Climate:**Mongolia is high, cold, and dry. It has an extreme continental climate with long, cold winters and short summers,
 * **Population:**2,125,463, the average population density was 1.36 people per square kilometer.
 * **Geography:**the land slopes from the high Altai Mountains of the west and the north to plains and depressions in the east and the south.The lowest point is 560 ,metersaverage elevation of 1,580 meters,The landscape includes one of Asia's largest freshwater lakes ,many salt lakes, marshes, sand dunes, rolling grasslands, alpine forests, and permanent montane glaciers
 * **Major Resources:** forests, fish, and a variety of mineralscoal, copper, fluorite, gold, iron ore, lead, molybdenum, oil, phosphates, tin, uranium, and wolfram.
 * **Major tourist attractions and or historical sights:Historical Memorials, Crane Nesting Wetland,**
 * **Median Family Income:$344.88 per person**
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