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Mongolian- click the link

http://www.funkymongolian.com/learnmongolian/impress/

Remember

Per Capita= average income

• Politics of Mongolia takes place in a framework of a semi-presidential representative democratic republic, and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and parliament. The Judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature.

• Physical Geography - Semi Desert – (Gobi Desert)

• Climate- desert / Hot & arid Mongolia has an extreme continental climate; it is so far inland that no sea moderates its climate. Mongolia is known as the ‘Land of Blue Sky’.

• Major City In Mongolia

• Literacy rate 98%

• Average life expectancy 64 years

• Voter turnout often over 80%• Population 2, 576, 000 (2007)

• Horse-to-human ratio 13 to 1

Reindeer Are REAL!!!!!

Religion- Buddhist 50% Christian 6%

Muslim 4% None 40%

• You can visit a family anytime during ordinary days because Mongolian people are always hospitable and friendly. They always offer food and drinks for guests who arrived from far places. House owners of the 'ger' would wish you to feel at home. Please remember the following: - Greet the family members and sit down. Mongolians respect by sitting, but Europeans show respect by standing. Do not sit putting one leg over another, or otherwise people will think that you are looking down on them.  

Hunting with the EAGLES

Eagles also can be trained to hunt rabbits for sport and if your eagle wins, you win three YAKS!!!!!!

The original Mohawk- from Mongolia- (Louis, Justin, & Jerry)

Winter in Northern Mongolia

Johnathan Gonzalez

RACING A YAK

• Temperatures generally start to drop below 0°C in late October, sink to -30°C in January and February and remain below freezing until April. July through September is pleasant, but it can still turn suddenly cold and, unfortunately, most of the city’s rain falls in this period. Summer daylight lasts until 10pm.

ICE WRESTLING

• If Mongolians spill airag, milk or other dairy products on the ground, they will dip their fingers into it and touch it lightly to their forehead.

• Do not whistle inside yerts or any kind of

building. Why should one not whistle at home? If we whistle at home a whirlwind will come and destroy our home... they say. People dislike very much one who whistles and brings about such bad wind. Long time ago there was legend about whistlers who can create a whirlwind to destroy the enemies for the sake of protecting their home.

While city folks enjoy almost all the benefits of “civilization” and look more than European,

the rural population still lives nomadic lifestyle following herds and worshipping the nature. The revolutions, political upheavals

and economic reforms have had little impact on nomads still living simple life short of

many modern goods and services. But what they lack in terms of materialistic life is more

than compensated by the richness of the nomadic culture, moral values and traditions

that comprise the backbone of the true nomadic spirit.