East Asia · Empire, war and the modern states
Mongolia
drawn on the map 1992–2024
Modern Mongolia, since the peaceful democratic revolution of 1990 and its 1992 constitution, is a multiparty parliamentary democracy that transitioned from the communist MPR to a market economy. Landlocked between Russia and China, it pursues a "third neighbor" foreign policy.
- Shown on the map
- 1992–2024
- Peak area
- 1.5M km²
- Region
- East Asia
Overview
Modern Mongolia, since the peaceful democratic revolution of 1990 and its 1992 constitution, is a multiparty parliamentary democracy that transitioned from the communist MPR to a market economy. Landlocked between Russia and China, it pursues a "third neighbor" foreign policy. Its economy is heavily based on mining (copper, coal, gold) and traditional herding; Ulaanbaatar is home to nearly half the population.
Common questions
- What was Mongolia?
- Modern Mongolia, since the peaceful democratic revolution of 1990 and its 1992 constitution, is a multiparty parliamentary democracy that transitioned from the communist MPR to a market economy. Landlocked between Russia and China, it pursues a "third neighbor" foreign policy.
- When is Mongolia shown on the map?
- The border data draws Mongolia 1992–2024. The source samples borders at fixed dates, so a span can begin late or run on past the end.
- How large was Mongolia?
- At its greatest extent drawn on this map, Mongolia covered about 1.5 million km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.
Sources
This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia article for each polity as the basis of these profiles, supplemented by Encyclopaedia Britannica, chinaknowledge.de, the World History Encyclopedia, museum and university sources, and the academic works it lists. The article this entry is anchored on:
- Wikipedia — Mongolia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolia
This entry was last updated .
This entry was researched and drafted with AI from the sources above, and has not been reviewed by a historian. How entries are made
Text available under CC BY-SA 4.0: reuse it with a credit to The World Through Time and a link to this page. Passages drawing on the Wikipedia articles listed above are also licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 by their contributors.
Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).
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