Mongolia Hotels
Hotels in Mongolia are often required by tourists or those who visit the nation. Some may want to see the culture, the history the architecture, the tourist attractions the scenery and the landscapes of the nation. Some may want to study the entertainment or sports of the nation. Some may want to see the desert of the nation or the major towns and cities or to see the history of the nation. Some may want a hotel that has good access to scenery in the nation to to the tourist attractions. Some may want a hotel in the of the major cities or in a non urban areas. Some may search for hotels that have good access to parking. Some may want hotels that have good prices and that might have a good status in the holiday industry.
Mongolia is a landlocked country in East and Central Asia. It borders Russia to the north and People's Republic of China to the south, east and west. Although Mongolia does not share a border with Kazakhstan, its western-most point is only a few miles from Kazakhstan's eastern tip. Ulan Bator, the capital and largest city.
The Gobi is the largest desert region in Asia. It covers parts of northern and northwestern China, and of southern Mongolia. The desert basins of the Gobi are bounded by the Altai Mountains and the grasslands and steppes of Mongolia on the north, by the Tibetan Plateau to the southwest, and by the North China Plain to the southeast. The Gobi is made up of several distinct ecological and geographic regions based on variations in climate and topography. This desert is the fourth largest in the world.
The Gobi is most notable in history as part of the great Mongol Empire, and as the location of several important cities along the Silk Road.
The
Gobi is a rain shadow desert formed by the Himalaya range blocking rain-carrying
clouds from reaching the Gobi.
Mongolia, since prehistoric times, has been
inhabited by nomads who, from time to time, formed great confederations that rose
to prominence. The first of these, the Xiongnu, were brought together to form
a confederation by Modu Shanyu in 209 BC. Soon they emerged as the greatest threat
to the Qin Dynasty, forcing the latter to construct the Great Wall of China, itself
being guarded by up to almost 300,000 soldiers during marshal Meng Tian's tenure,
as a means of defense against the destructive Xiongnu raids. After the decline
of the Xiongnu, the Rouran, a close relative of the Mongols, came to power before
being defeated by the Göktürks, who then dominated Mongolia for centuries.
During the seventh and eighth centuries, they were succeeded by Uyghurs and then
by the Khitans and Jurchens. By the tenth century, the country was divided into
numerous tribes linked through transient alliances and involved in the old patterns
of internal strife.
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the chaos of the late twelfth century, a chieftain named Temüjin finally
succeeded in uniting the Mongol tribes between Manchuria and the Altai Mountains.
In 1206, he took the title Genghis Khaan, and waged a series of military campaigns
- renowned for their brutality and ferocity - sweeping through much of Asia, and
forming the Mongol Empire, the largest contiguous land empire in world history.
Under his successors it stretched from present-day Poland in the west to Korea
in the east, and from Siberia in the north to the Gulf of Oman and Vietnam in
the south, covering some 33,000,000 km² (12,741,000 sq mi), (22% of Earth's
total land area) and having a population of over 100 million people.
After Genghis Khaan's death, the empire had been subdivided into four kingdoms or Khanates which eventually split-up after Möngke's death in 1259. One of the khanates, the "Great Khaanate", consisting of the Mongol homeland and China, became the Yuan Dynasty under Kublai Khaan, grandson of Genghis Khaan. He set up his capital in present day Beijing but after more than a century of power, the Yuan was replaced by the Ming Dynasty in 1368, with the Mongol court fleeing to the north. As the Ming armies pursued the Mongols into their homeland, they successfully sacked and destroyed the Mongol capital Karakorum among other cities, wiping out the cultural progress that was achieved during the imperial period and thus throwing Mongolia back to anarchy.
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 steppes. The highest point in Mongolia is the Khüiten Peak in the Tavan bogd massif in the far west at 4,374 m (14,350 ft). The basin of the lake Uvs Nuur, shared with Tuva Republic in Russia, is a natural World Heritage Site. Most of the country is hot in the summer and extremely cold in the winter, with January averages dropping as low as -30°C (-22°F).[13] The country is also subject to occasional harsh climatic conditions known as zud. Ulan Bator has the lowest average temperature of any national capital in the world. Mongolia is high, cold, and windy. It has an extreme continental climate with long, cold winters and short summers, during which most of its annual precipitation falls. The country averages 257 cloudless days a year, and it is usually at the center of a region of high atmospheric pressure. Precipitation is highest in the north (average of 20 to 35 centimeters per year) and lowest in the south, which receives 10 to 20 centimeters annually. The extreme south is the Gobi, some regions of which receive no precipitation at all in most years.
The name "Gobi" 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. 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.
Ulan Bator, or Ulaanbaatar is the capital and largest city of Mongolia. Located in the north central part of the country, the city lies at an elevation of about 1310 m in a valley on the Tuul River. It is the cultural, industrial, and financial heart of the country. It is a transport center, connected by highway to all the major towns in Mongolia and by rail to the Trans-Siberian Railway and Chinese railroad network.[2]
The city was founded in 1639 as a Buddhist monastic centre and, in the 20th century, grew into a major manufacturing centre defined by its broad boulevards and squares and Socialist Classicist-style buildings.[
Mongolia is divided into 21 aimags ; Arkhangai, Bayan-Ölgii, Bayankhongor, Bulgan, Darkhan-Uul, Dornod, Dornogovi, Dundgovi, Govi-Altai, Govisümber, Khentii, , Khovd, Khövsgöl, Ömnögovi, Orkhon, Övörkhangai, Selenge, Sükhbaatar, Töv, Uvs,
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