General Information

Capital : Ulaanbaatar , founded in 1639, 598.6 thousand inhabitants

Population : (thous) 2317.0 Male - 1156.5 Female - 1160.5

Area : 1,566,500 sq.km

Official languages :  Mongolian

Currency : Togrog (Tg), about Tg 1094 = US$ 7 in February, 2000

Government

Form :  parliamentary republic

Head of state : President elected for four years

Head of government : President

Legislature : State Great Hural (Parliament),

Judiciary : Supreme Court

National economy:

Gross national product :100530 MNT (1993)

Mining : More than 6,000 occurrences of about 80 different minerals such as ferrous, non-ferrous, light and precious metals, rare metals and rare-earth elements, non-metals, fossil fuel as well as industrial and building materials

People :

Urban : 1262.7 Rural - 1054.3

Religion : Buddhism