Profile of Mongolia

General Information
Capital	Ulaanbaatar, founded in 1639, 598.6 thousand inhabitants
Population	(thous) 2317.0 Male - 1156.5 Female - 1160.5
Area	1,566,500 sq.km
Official Languages	Mongolian
Currency	Togrog (Tg), about Tg 1094 = US$ 7 in February, 2000
Government
Form	parliamentary republic
Head of State	President elected for four years
Head of Government	President
Legislature	State Great Hural (Parliament),
Judiciary	Supreme Court
National Economy
Gross National Product	100530 MNT (1993)
Mining	More than 6,000 occurrences of about 80 different minerals such as ferrous, non-ferrous, light and precious metals, rare metals and rare-earth elements, non-metals, fossil fuel as well as industrial and building materials
People
Urban	1262.7 Rural - 1054.3
Religion	Buddhism