Mongolia



"Mongolia is a place where there are a lot of mountains, plus it has grassy steppes. Trust me. If there is a very little arable land, and the cold Gobi Desert, maybe there is one who can rise..."

--Su Ji-Hoon, The Rise of Shan Yu

Mongolia /mɒŋˈɡoʊliə/ (Monggol Ulus in Mongolian; Монгол Улс in Mongolian Cyrillic) is a landlocked unitary sovereign state in East Asia. Its area is roughly equivalent with the historical territory of Outer Mongolia, and that term is sometimes used to refer to the current state. It is sandwiched between China to the south and Russia to the north. While it does not share a border with Kazakhstan, Mongolia is separated from it by only 36.76 kilometers (22.84 mi).

At 1,564,116 square kilometers (603,909 sq mi), Mongolia is the 18th largest and the most sparsely populated fully sovereign country in the world, with a population of around 3 million people. It is also the world's second-largest landlocked country behind Kazakhstan and the largest landlocked country that does not border a closed sea. The country contains very little arable land, as much of its area is covered by grassy steppe, with mountains to the north and west and the Gobi Desert to the south. Ulaanbaatar, the capital and largest city, is home to about 45% of the country's population.

Current Status
After the Mongolian War, it transitioned back into a socialist state, the Mongolian People's Republic, with Bayan-Ölgii being an unionsgau of the Nazi Union and Dornod being a colony of the Redcoat Union, which both of them are co-administred together with the newly Mongolian communist government.