Photo images of north eastern part of Mongolia. Summer 2005. (Click on the image to enlarge)
This country is over 1.5 million square kilometers. And only 2.7 million people live there, nearly half of whom actually residing in the capital city Ulaanbaatar (1.1 million) now. (Forget about those outdated statistics found in the English language, including even the UN statistics on Mongolia. Carelessly neglected data.) This makes the enormous land look quite uninhabited.
Generally, Mongolia's land is divided into 5-6 natural zones (depending on the classification purpose). For example:
1) Desert (South)
2) Semi-desert (South)
3) Forest-steppe (Central, Western, Eastern parts of Mongolia) (Known as, e.g. rolling steppes or grassland)
4) Taiga (Smaller part in North-West)
5) (Altai) Mountainous area (Smaller part in West)
The images here are only from the north-eastern part of Mongolia, as a matter of fact, not far from Ulaanbaatar. These were taken by Finnish friends traveling in Mongolia.
This country is over 1.5 million square kilometers. And only 2.7 million people live there, nearly half of whom actually residing in the capital city Ulaanbaatar (1.1 million) now. (Forget about those outdated statistics found in the English language, including even the UN statistics on Mongolia. Carelessly neglected data.) This makes the enormous land look quite uninhabited.
Generally, Mongolia's land is divided into 5-6 natural zones (depending on the classification purpose). For example:
1) Desert (South)
2) Semi-desert (South)
3) Forest-steppe (Central, Western, Eastern parts of Mongolia) (Known as, e.g. rolling steppes or grassland)
4) Taiga (Smaller part in North-West)
5) (Altai) Mountainous area (Smaller part in West)
The images here are only from the north-eastern part of Mongolia, as a matter of fact, not far from Ulaanbaatar. These were taken by Finnish friends traveling in Mongolia.
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