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mongolia
/mɑŋˈɡoʊli.ə/
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What does mongolia mean?
proper noun
- A country in East Asia. Capital and largest city: Ulaanbaatar.
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proper noun
- (historical) A Mongolian-speaking geographic region in East Asia, including the country of Mongolia (Outer Mongolia), the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia in China, and sometimes also Buryatia, Tuva and the Altai Republic in Russia.
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/mɑŋˈɡoʊli.ə/
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Fix, left alone, was more impatient than ever, having a presentiment that the robber was on board the “Mongolia.”
"My husband, the Prince, is very much interested in this subject, and believes that there are rich stores of ore on his principality in Mongolia."
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Economic activity traditionally has been based on agriculture and the breeding of livestock - Mongolia has the highest number of livestock per person in the world.
Having prepared himself at Macao by eighteen months of hard study, and having arrayed himself like a native, even to the wearing of the queue and the staining of his skin, he visited Peking and penetrated Mongolia.
Heeren shows that a great overland commerce extended in ancient times between the Black Sea and "Great Mongolia;" he mentions a "Temple of the Sun," and a great caravansary in the desert of Gobi.