{"id":1808,"date":"2018-04-27T07:19:21","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T04:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ak-sai.com\/?page_id=1808"},"modified":"2019-02-05T16:11:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T10:11:15","slug":"nature","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ak-sai.com\/en\/destinations\/mongolia\/nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"

Geography of Mongolia<\/strong><\/p>\n

The name \u201cGobi\u201d is a Mongol term for a desert steppe, which usually refers to a category of arid rangeland with insufficient vegetation to support marmots but with enough to support camels. Mongols distinguish Gobi from desert proper, although the distinction is not always apparent to outsiders unfamiliar with the Mongolian landscape.<\/p>\n

Gobi rangelands are fragile and are easily destroyed by overgrazing, which results in expansion of the true desert, a stony waste where not even Bactrian camels can survive. The arid conditions in the Gobi are attributed to the rain shadow effect caused by the Himalayas. Before the Himalayas were formed by the collision of the Indo-Australian plate with the Eurasian plate 10 million years ago Mongolia was a flourishing habitat for major fauna but still somewhat arid and cold due to distance from sources of evaporation. Sea turtle and mollusk fossils have been found in the Gobi apart from the more well-known dinosaur fossils. Tadpole shrimps (Lepidurus mongolicus) are still found in the Gobi today. The eastern part of Mongolia including the Onon, Kherlen rivers and Lake Buir form part of the Amur river basin draining to the Pacific Ocean. It hosts some unique species like the Eastern brook lamprey, Daurian crayfish (cambaroides dauricus) and Daurian pearl oyster (dahurinaia dahurica) in the Onon\/Kherlen rivers, as well as Siberian prawn (exopalaemon modestus) in Lake Buir.<\/p>\n

Mongolia is one of the richest natural countries in the world. Because, there are 7 natural zones: such as High Mountain Zone, Taiga Forest Zone, Mountain Forest Steppe Zone, Steppe Zone, Desert-Steppe Zone, Gobi Desert Zone, Wetlands. For example: Mongolian from north to south it can be divided into four natural zones: mountain-forest steppe, mountain steppe and, in the extreme south, semi-desert and desert.<\/p>\n

At 1,564,116 km2 (603,909 sq mi), Mongolia is the world\u2019s 19th-largest country. It mostly lies between latitudes 41\u00b0 and 52\u00b0N (a small area is north of 52\u00b0), and longitudes 87\u00b0 and 120\u00b0E. As a point of reference, the northernmost part of Mongolia is on roughly the same latitude as Berlin (Germany) and Amsterdam (Netherlands), while the southernmost part is on roughly the same latitude as Rome (Italy) and Chicago (USA). The westernmost part of Mongolia is on roughly the same longitude as Kolkata (India), while the easternmost part is on the same longitude as Qinhuangdao (China) and Hangzhou (China), as well as the western edge of Taiwan. Although Mongolia does not share a border with Kazakhstan, its westernmost point is only 36.76 kilometres (22.84 mi) from Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n

The geography of Mongolia is varied, with the Gobi Desert to the south and with cold and mountainous regions to the north and west. Much of Mongolia consists of the Mongolian-Manchurian grassland steppe, with forested areas comprising 11.2% of the total land area, a higher percentage than the Republic of Ireland (10%). The whole of Mongolia is considered to be part of the Mongolian Plateau. The highest point in Mongolia is the Kh\u00fciten Peak in the Tavan bogd massif in the far west at 4,374 m (14,350 ft). The basin of the Uvs Lake, shared with Tuva Republic in Russia, is a natural World Heritage Site.
\nMongolia is known as the \u201cLand of the Eternal Blue Sky\u201d or \u201cCountry of Blue Sky\u201d because it has over 250 sunny days a year.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Geography of Mongolia The name \u201cGobi\u201d is a Mongol term for a desert steppe, which usually refers to a category of arid rangeland with insufficient vegetation to support marmots but with enough to support camels. Mongols distinguish Gobi from desert proper, although the distinction is not always apparent to outsiders unfamiliar with the Mongolian landscape. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1083,"parent":1794,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page_object.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ak-sai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ak-sai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ak-sai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ak-sai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ak-sai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ak-sai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11395,"href":"https:\/\/ak-sai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1808\/revisions\/11395"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ak-sai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ak-sai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ak-sai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}