• Capital city: Ulaanbaatar (population 1 million)
• Area: 1,564,116 sq km
• Population: 2.754.685 million
• Language: Mongolian
• Currency: Togrog (MNT)
• Time zone: GMT +7; GMT +8
• Dialling code: +976
• Dialling code for Ulaanbaatar city: +976-11 (land line)
• Daylight savings begins: No DST
• Daylight savings ends: No DST
• Electricity: Type C (European 2-pin), Type E (French 2-pin, female earth)

Mongolia is bordered by Russia to the North and China to the south. Covering an area of 1,564,116 square kilometers, Mongolia is the second-largest landlocked country with a total population of 2.754.685 million in 2010. It has one of the world’s lowest population densities at 1.6 persons per square kilometer. The majority of the citizens are of the Mongol ethnicity and approximately thirty percent of the 2.754.685 million people are nomadic or semi-nomadic. The predominant religion is Tibetan Buddhism. The capital and largest city is Ulaanbaatar (population is 1.240.037 million). The official language is Mongolian. Mongolia’s political system is parliamentary democracy. The official monetary unit is the Togrog, the exchange rate of which was 1,235.71 MNT against USD as of May 2011.