Overview: Mongolia is an expansive land-locked country, tilted bytectonic forces to the North, that experiences extremes of continentalclimate. Moisture-carrying wind currents are scarce so that the landhas extended highs and lows in its environment. Culturally the peopleare mostly nomadic, having been sustained for centuries by an economybased on domestic livestock grazing. There is a saying that, `As thenoses go, so goes Mongolia‘, referring to the domesticated grazingnoses of sheep, goats, camels, yaks or horses, and wild ungulates suchas gazelles. The vast fenceless steppes of Mongolia fur
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