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Eight welcoming questions about the essentials of Mongolia, a land of wide-open spaces. No expert knowledge needed: everyone can join in.
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Ulaanbaatar is the coldest capital city in the world, measured by its average temperature over a whole year, partly because it lies about 1,350 metres up in a river valley. Almost half of all the people in Mongolia live there.
Photo: Zazaa Mongolia, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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The stainless-steel statue of Genghis Khan is 40 metres tall, the tallest statue of a rider on horseback in the world. It stands where, according to legend, he once found a golden whip; he founded the Mongol Empire about 800 years ago.
Photo: Vaiz Ha, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.
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Snow leopards live in Mongolia's Altai and Khangai mountains, where their broad, furry paws help them walk on snow. When they sleep, they wrap their long, thick tail over their face like a blanket, and unlike lions and tigers, they cannot roar.
Photo: Irbis1983, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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Many herding families still move with the seasons, taking their sheep, goats, horses and other animals to fresh grass and water. Their round felt home can be taken down or put up in anything from half an hour to a few hours, and its thick felt keeps out the bitter winter cold.
Photo: Myrzabek Ozubekov, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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In Bayan-Ölgii, Mongolia's far western province, Kazakh hunters train golden eagles, and every year they show off their birds' skills at the Golden Eagle Festival. The 2016 film 'The Eagle Huntress' made 13-year-old Aisholpan famous around the world as she trained her own eagle and competed there.
Photo: Altaihunters, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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In throat singing, called khöömii, a singer makes a deep, buzzing note and a high, whistling tune above it at the very same moment. Mongolia is often called the liveliest home of this way of singing in the world, and some Mongolian folk-rock bands now mix it into their music.
Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Eric Pouhier assumed (based on copyright cl, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.5.
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This salty milk tea, called suutei tsai, is often made with tea chipped off a hard, pressed block, and some families add butter or crunchy fried millet. The traditional way to stir it is to scoop it up while it boils and pour it back in from a height.
Photo: user:takoradee, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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The eggs were found at the Flaming Cliffs, named by the American explorer Roy Chapman Andrews because the rocks glow red and orange at sunset. One dinosaur found lying on a nest there was named Oviraptor, 'egg thief', but scientists later realised it had been keeping its own eggs safe.
Photo: Christopher Michel, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.
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