Mongolia

American  

[mong-goh-lee-uh, mon-] / mɒŋˈgoʊ li ə, mɒn- /

noun

1. a region in Asia including Inner Mongolia of China and the Mongolian People's Republic.

2. Also Nei Monggol. Inner Mongolia.

3. Outer Mongolia, former name of Mongolian People's Republic.

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Mongolia British  

/ mɒŋˈɡəʊlɪə /

noun

1. Former names: Outer Mongolia, Mongolian People's Republic. a republic in E central Asia: made a Chinese province in 1691; became autonomous in 1911 and a republic in 1924; multiparty democracy introduced in 1990. It consists chiefly of a high plateau, with the Gobi Desert in the south, a large lake district in the northwest, and the Altai and Khangai Mountains in the west Official language: Khalkha. Religion: nonreligious majority. Currency: tugrik. Capital: Ulan Bator. Pop: 3 226 516 (2013 est). Area: 1 565 000 sq km (604 095 sq miles)

2. a vast region of central Asia, inhabited chiefly by Mongols: now divided into the republic of Mongolia, Inner Mongolia (the Mongol Autonomous Region of China), and the Tuva Republic of S Russia; at its height during the 13th century under Genghis Khan

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Mongolia Cultural  

1. Country in north-central Asia, bordered by Russian Siberia to the north, and China to the east, south, and west. Its capital and largest city is Ulan Bator.

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It is unofficially called Outer Mongolia.

Mongolia proclaimed itself independent from China in 1911. With Soviet support, a communist regime was established in 1921. In 1990, the Communist party gave up its monopoly on power.

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The international team, which included scientists from the University of California Berkeley, ETH Zürich, and Yale University, conducted an extensive study of exceptionally preserved microfossils from the Kheseen Biota in Mongolia.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

A lack of trust in Russian public health institutions has triggered fear of a potential plague outbreak among residents in the Siberian region of Irkutsk, near the border with Mongolia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

"Big data and all that… pretty good – but it has nothing to do with me," says one farmer in Inner Mongolia, as he trundles on a cart to check on his sheep.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

"You can literally see Shaun the Sheep here in Bristol and in Outer Mongolia."

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

I tried to read in their faces where else they’d been, if their travels had taken them to places like Mongolia, Singapore, Timbuktu.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago