Name: 地理Now!モンゴリア (Geography Now! MONGOLIA)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T10:38:17.000Z
Duration: 14 min 38 s
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Basically: Putting aside all the political differences, at the end of the day,

the nearly two billion of East Asians like Koreans, Japanese and Chinese are distant cousins.

Then little Mongolia comes in with less than 3 million people and they step on the scene and it's like

You may have heard a little bit about this guy, mostly through the massive empire from Genghis Khan

But Mongolia is unique in that it's kind of like the kindred route that billions of people stem from all over the world.

And it all starts on some grassy hills that we will locate in:

Mongolia is known as the "Land of the eternal blue sky" as they get over 250 sunny days a year.

They really are kind of like the "Center of Asia"

Even though technically the actual geographic center of Asia is claimed by three spots -

But Mongolia is really close to all three of them.

Mongolia is a landlocked country - the 18th largest in the world located in centre East Asia bordered by Russia and China.

If it wasn't for this very narrow 23 mile long corridor, they would also touch Kazakhstan

The country is divided into 21 provinces or Aimags,

with the capital Ulaanbaatar meaning "Red hero" in the Northeast acting as its own municipality with provincial status.

Literally all roads in the country eventually lead up to this one city one way or another.

Oh and it has this really cool-looking curved sky tower building.

Fun fact: Ulaanbaatar (spelled a variety of different ways depending on how you look at it) is the world's coldest capital

and it was actually a nomadic city that moved 28 times before settling in its current location.

The city in itself holds about 45% of the entire country's population and holds the only International Airport,

and a new airport is being built on the other side of the mountain so far just called New Ulaanbaator International.

It has almost, nothing around it. So, good luck?

Otherwise the second and third largest cities are Erdenet and Darkhan located relatively close to Ulaanbaatar.

Now Mongolia is kind of interesting because although they don't have territorial disputes, they do have some interesting border demarcations.

Such as the narrow western slot of Lake Buir shared with China.

On the east you can find the tripoint monument for China, Russia and Mongolia at Tarbagan-Dakh

and plans for a possible western tripoint marker on the peak of Mount Tavan Bogdo Ula are on the way.

The country has a main railway that transects the north to south entering both Russia and China.

This also connects to the larger well-known Trans-Siberian railway in Russia.

More lines are planned to be built in the future

but for now, almost the entire western part of Mongolia is only accessible by crude roads and paths

Anyway, now when I say "Mongolia", obviously

I'm referring to what constitutes the boundaries of "modern-day State Mongolia".

the regions of what are now Inner Mongolia that belonged to China or the "People's Republic of China" were part of the larger Mongolia region

and today has more ethnic Mongols than actual Mongolia.

You'll probably hit with a lot of interesting sights, especially with Genghis Khan, you know him.

He's everywhere; Statues, buildings, carvings on hillsides. The airport is actually named after him.

Some notable sites of interest might include places like

The locals kind of consider it like the "center of energy for the universe".

Of course, there are so many hundreds of different monasteries like these

And of course, there's the pride and glory statue, the Tsonjin Boldog Genghis Khan statue

But the thing Mongolia is probably known most for is not the hand made landmarks

but rather the vast open expanses of grass land where all the power began.

Remember that Universal wallpaper for all Windows monitors back in like 1997?

It has that serene rolling green hill. That's kind of what comes to mind when I think of Mongolia's landscape.

Fun fact: It got converted into a vineyard.

Mongolia lies on the center of Asia sandwiched between the Gobi Desert in the south

and there are three main small mountain chains:

The Altai in the west where you can find the tallest peak, Khütien on the border with China.

The Khangal mountains in the north where you can find the deepest freshwater lake, Khövsgöl.

However the hyper saline lake Uvs has more surface area.

In between these two mountain chains lies the Valley of Lakes where most of Mongolia's natural lakes lie,

which is where the longest river, the Orkhon flows, sourced by lake Baikal in the Buryat Republic of Russia.

Basically, if you want the overall summary: the south is a dry cold desert,

the north is greener and hillier with grassy hills and water

and the entire country is subjugated to the massive atmospheric pressure zone known as the Siberian Anticyclone.

This is a huge cold dry air mass with massive pressure that accumulates between September and April usually centered around Lake Baikal

and it grows, as far as Italy in the West, and Malaysia to the south.

In a nutshell, this is what keeps Mongolia generally windier and chillier,

even though they get lots of sunshine with little snow.

Basically, it's a very dry land mass and the rainiest spot only get about 14 inches of rain a year at best.

In fact, the only natural disaster thing they faced would be the Dzud or

a harsh climactic condition that causes massive amounts of livestock to die off due to freezing conditions and starvation.

the Gobi Desert is the source of the eastern winds that causes all the dust storms that fly all the way across Eastern Asia.

In the Korea episode, I explained, it's called Hwang Sa.

All right. This is my triple shot of espresso break.

Usually Noah comes in but his car broke down so he can't make it here.

Ken, just take, just take over, just take over.

Mongolia is known for being very big and empty which makes it perfect for animals to graze

In terms of wildlife, Mongolia is a horse haven.

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