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
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