"Ulan Bator, the capitol of Mongolia, is perhaps the most technologically up-to-date city in the world, totally digital. With the fall of the Soviet Union, a free and independent Mongolia benefited from numerous sources of foreign aid, and with no infrastructure to upgrade, it leapfrogged about three generations of technology. The whole city is wired with fiber-optic cable, enabling you to jack into the Web from almost any phone in town... Everybody in Mongolia has a digital cell phone. The nation's nomads, crossing the country on horseback, carry them. There is a cell phone in most yurts."
Please read the fascinating books by globetrotter/investor Jim Rogers:
4.4 inhabitants per square mile...
| 238 |  Mongolia | 2,671,000 | 2009 | 1,564,116 | 603,909 | 1.7 | 4.4 | [3] |
| 239 |  Falkland Islands (United Kingdom) | 3,140 | 2009 | 12,173 | 4,700 | 0.26 | 0.67 | [3] |
| 240 |  Greenland (Denmark) | 57,000 | 2009 | 2,175,600 | 840,000 | 0.026 | 0.067 | [3][79] |
| Rank | Country/region of special position | Population | Date last updated | Area (km2) | Area (mi2) | Density (/km2) | Density (/mi2) | Notes |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulan_Bator
The Chinese province Inner Mongolia is named, in Mongolian language, Mongol Breast, among other meanings.
"In Chinese, the region is known as "Inner Mongolia", where the terms of "Inner/Outer" are derived from Manchu dorgi/tulergi.
Inner Mongolia is distinct from Outer Mongolia, which was a term used by the Republic of China and previous governments to refer to what is now the independent state of Mongolia plus the Republic of Tuva in Russia.
In Mongolian, the region is known as öbür mongγol where öbör can mean south, inner, front, bosom, breast. Some Mongolians use the name "Southern Mongolia" in English as well."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_mongolia
The Chinese province Inner Mongolia is named, in Mongolian language, Mongol Breast, among other meanings.
"In Chinese, the region is known as "Inner Mongolia", where the terms of "Inner/Outer" are derived from Manchu dorgi/tulergi.
Inner Mongolia is distinct from Outer Mongolia, which was a term used by the Republic of China and previous governments to refer to what is now the independent state of Mongolia plus the Republic of Tuva in Russia.
In Mongolian, the region is known as öbür mongγol where öbör can mean south, inner, front, bosom, breast. Some Mongolians use the name "Southern Mongolia" in English as well."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_mongolia
What's in a name, like MONGOLISM? A bad connotation.
Some felt that the medical terminology has let them down by using such a politically incorrect term.
So MONGOLISM was changed to...DOWN SYNDROME.
"In 1961, 18 geneticists wrote to the editor of The Lancet suggesting that Mongolian idiocy had "misleading connotations," had become "an embarrassing term," and should be changed.[99] The Lancet supported Down's Syndrome. The World Health Organization (WHO) officially dropped references to mongolism in 1965 after a request by the Mongolian delegate.[100] However, almost 40 years later, the term ‘mongolism’ still appears in leading medical texts such as General and Systematic Pathology, 4th Edition, 2004, edited by Professor Sir James Underwood. Advocacy groups adapted and parents groups welcomed the elimination of the Mongoloid label that had been a burden to their children. The first parents group in the United States, the Mongoloid Development Council, changed its name to the National Association for Down Syndrome in 1972."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_syndrome
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V, as in VARIOUS.
"The area of what is now Mongolia has been ruled by various nomadic empires"."
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