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Overview
- Capital:
- Ulaanbaatar
- Area:
- 1,564,116 km²
- Population:
- 2,832,224 (2003 estimate)
- Language(s):
- Khalkha Mongol - 90%, Turkic, Russian.
- Religion(s):
- Buddhist Lamaist - 50%, none - 40%, Shamanist and Christian - 6%, Muslim - 4%.
- Ethnic Group(s):
- Mongol (Khalkha) - 94.9%, Turkic (Kazakh) - 5%, others (Chinese, Russian and others) - 0.1%.