Why 99.7% of Mongolia is Completely Empty
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I am Mongolian, and I would like to thank you for talking about my country. Most of the world still does not know about us and what we have sacrificed for our independence and existence.
Huh there's probably a Mongol Empire joke here somewhere
As a non-mongolian, your country is quite famous
Bro I’m from Uzbekistan and never heard anything about you guys at all. Everything I know about Mongolia is from books/wiki/youtube.
blud is Mongolian 💀💀
@@paqlallaqldifi122_7 all of us are 🏹🏹🏹🏇🏇🇲🇳🇲🇳
"Mongolia is huge"
Not as huge as it used to be...
Hearing mongolian battle cries😅
this isn’t the right khan academy
@@chheinrich8486 I saw doc of chinese tradition having Xi'an middle of country and Ulaanbatar follows this tradition ... or other way round, whoever thought of this thing first... maximum distance from borders so enemies cant hurt you easily.
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U mean the Dothraki sea?
I have a student, the sweetest little boy, he's from Mongolia. I know a bit for an American (not a lot for the more worldly individuals) about Mongolia. I asked him one day where his family was from, and he told me. His eyes light up when I told him what I knew about Mongolia. He was shy and quiet until that day. It was like I helped open his shell. He taught me some Mongolian, and whenever he sees me, he just lights up. It surprised me how little people know about Mongolia. It has an amazing history and culture. By far, my favorite Asian country to learn about.
You are a good teacher 😘😘
Recite in the name of your Lord who created
Created man from a clinging substance.
Recite and your Lord is the most Generous.
Is then He, Who creates as one who creates not?
It is Allah who created the heaveens and the earth and sent down rain from the sky and produced thereby some fruits as provision for you and subjected for you the ship to sail throung the sea by His command and subjected for you the rivers.
He subjected for you the sun and the moon continuous(in orbit)and subjected for you the night and the day.
Do you worship that wich you(yourselves)carve,While Allah created you and that wich you do?
Vision perceives Him not,but He perceives(All)vision and He is the Subtle the Acguainted.
It is He who has produced you and made for you hearing and vision and hearts;Little are you grateful?
Have you considered;If your water was to become sunken(into the earth),then who could bring you flowing water?
It is He who has produced you and made for you hearing and vision and hearts;Little are you GRATEFULL?
This day I have PERFECTED your religion for you completed My favour upon you and have chosen for you Islam as you religion.
O people!Worship Allah;you have no deity other than Him.He has produced you from the earth and settled you in it,so ask forgiveness of Him and then repent to Him.Indeed my Lord is near and responsive.
Well com too Islam religions.
Thanks.
Recite,recite,recite...........
@@user-hy4zj7pk3tshut up
@@user-hy4zj7pk3tDamn bro, I can't find out who asked
yeah im absolutely contributing to the Americans who know nothing about Mongolia. i know Ulaanbaatar is the capital and i could tell you a little about Genghis and Kublai. but other than that and a fun fact or two about the golden horde (which to be fair, didnt even operate in Mongolia) i dont know anything
Fun fact:This video has more views than the population of Mongolia
Braindead comment
Lol
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i checked it and its real
Fun fact: During USSR's entire existence, Mongolia has been the only country that has repeatedly applied for membership (aka annexation by USSR) willingly AND get denied.
bruh…
legends
It’s not a legend or myth, it’s real, history matters made a video about it
Yeah USSR was like:Bro I literally spending tons of resources to develop Siberia and far South parts of my country. I know you want me to build you for you but I ain't that generous.
@@durema9720 Well that and also USSR didnt want to piss of their only worthwhile ally: Chinese.
Chinese had a claim on Mongolian territory, so USSR kept Mongolia out incase Chinese demanded it.
They never did.
I really appreciate how, when someone mentions Mongolia online, many Mongolians come to the comments and show a great courtesy and education, thanking the journalist or creator for talking about their nation.
:)
Mongolians are also the most nationalistic group of people I have ever encountered on the internet.
@@davidenns8287More than Serbians?
@@davidenns8287 Interesting. I always thought it was people from the Philippines that were most nationalistic.
The Balkan states got some weird stuff going on.
Turkey too.
@@kek-senpai243 indians too
It speaks to the enormous legacy of Genghis Khan that, because of his work 800 years ago, people still know what and vaguely where Mongolia is. Even in America, where you'd struggle to find someone who can name every country on any continent that isn't North America or Australia, you can still mention Mongolia to them and they'll remember Genghis Khan and his Mongol Empire.
The man was more impactful to world history than almost any other except for people like Ramses II, Darius, Caesar, Augustus, Chandragupta etc. The man is in the leagues of the most influential humans of ALL of the species existence. Simply from his genetic important he could claim that legacy, let alone the accomplishments of the Mongolians beyond that.
chill with that. we know where Europe is, we have to go save ass over there every few decades
Australia is apart of Oceania, not its own continent
While this is hilariously accurate, there are also a great number of people here, who can't accurately name ANY country, that's not part of North America or Australia. 😳
@@bigploppa154 some do but most sadly can only name France Spain and the Uk
My grandfather is Mongolian born. His family lived in the northwest, pretty much on the border with present day Russia. They lived in a small village by a lake, like many did outside the capital. They moved to the USSR before my grandfather was old enough to even speak the language fully.
So you are hungarian
As a Mongolian, I know why most of the nomadic population live in the capital city, Ulan Baatar. Unfortunately, this situation is worsening day by day. Due to lack of sewage system and capacity limitations of the CWWTP, people living in suburban parts of the city were forced to use the wooden toilet (also known as a pit latrine or outhouse). This led to not only increases in soil, water and air pollutions, but also infections like cholera. Most of the suburbs don't have running water, only water kiosks (khudag). Further exacerbating problems.
@@RealLifeLoL bot
Greetings to Mongolia from Mexico
@@HasufelyArod Feliz día! 🌞
@@visionofwellboyofficial oye, hablas español?
Hey, you speak Spanish?
@@HasufelyArod No, por lo menos saludos
I know at least how to say Hi and How are you?
I had a girlfriend from Bangladesh that had a Mongolian friend and roommate. She made us a traditional Mongolian dish with Mongolian beef vacuum sealed and sent to her, still one of the most delicious meals I’ve ever had. She also gave me some Mongolian currency, it had Genghis Khan on it.
I thought he was dead
I'm sure that was excellent beef. Unlike most of the meat from the west, free range animals tend to be healthier and leaner with much less fat.
Fun fact: Their currency is actually called The "Genghis Khan", but it is pronounced Genghis Coin.
@@davidford3115 fat is flavor
@@thirstyfajita4115 Not always. Texture is a component of flavor, as black pepper proves.
Ignoring the fat, the major difference between Brisket, Tenderloin, and Top Sirloin actually comes down to texture.
The most accurate and well-researched video material about my little country. I appreciate whoever made this video.
I was fortunate enough to live and work in Mongolia pre-covid. My work has taken my wife and me to many wonderful places, but I can say without any doubt, our time in UB and Mongolia was the best ever. The people are (in random order) the friendliest, the most passionate and parochial, the biggest drinkers I have ever seen (both women and men) the fiercest fighters (usually over nothing) but most importantly; they are the hardest working and most dedicated people on the planet. I had a team of people that I was proud to lead, and even now keep in regular contact with. In fact, I have a Mongolian working with me in Argentina now and as always, her work makes me look good. It’s no wonder they went very close to conquering most of Asia and Europe!
What you do for a living? You IN ARGENTINA?
Having a third of your population be Buddhist monks is crazy, to think that the Tibetan clergy had that much influence over the country is insane. Great video as always.
Tibetan Buddhism and game of thrones like civil war among Mongols are true reasons why Mongol Empire turned to modern day Mongolia.
@@radnaat6928 weird how it worked out wasn't the mongol empire Muslim for a long time
@@danf7411 mongols ruled over lands that were muslim and the local leaders there adoped islam
@@danf7411 Oirat-Mongols were so powerful before genocide that Manchus did. They were first to convert to Tibetan Buddhism and some religion sh!t happened prevented islam to come. Before that, during Mongol empire collapses into 4 sectors, 3 of them converted to Islam and disappeared among Turkic, Iranic slaves and population, which they ruled. They were always been minority, yet always been rulers at that time.
It’s insane
"Mongolia is just a city state surrounded by a lot of empty area cosplaying as a huge country"
Historians in the future shall puzzle over this quote
if everything gets fucked oevr and the man of the wisdom tells to which he eats thee south of arkansas!!!
They hated him because he was right
Historians would puzzle over the word "cosplaying"
@@LuisSierra42 nah they'd be all down with that, it's 'country' that would have them scratching their heads
It’s just another empty countries
I am from Mongolia & all the information given here is authentic. Thanks for this informative video.❤❤
Watching
When I was a child, I used to climb the small mountain close to our herding camp almost every day. From there the area around the mountain looks beautiful. The limitless blue sky, bright sun and seemingly limitless steppe still in my memories. We even talk that "There are no sky bluer than Mongolia's". Thank you for this awesome and very detailed video about our nation.
I had no idea that Mongolia had such extreme winter/summer temperature variations. What surprised me was that Mongolia's summer temperature is similar to Singapore which is near the equator. The ocean's monsoons and currents are indeed crucial to the climate
The same thing happens to three of Canada's provinces. We get the same frigid winters and hot summers. But we aren't as dry, so they're mostly farmland in the south and boreal forest in the north.
I'm from Nebraska, the midwestern US, and we're _VERY_ used to wild and extreme swings in weather. I'm specifically accustomed to -10 to -30 C winters and 30-45 C summers pretty regularly.
However, there's always some humidity. To have these extremes, sometimes even more extreme, and NO humidity, often NO rain/snowfall, that's just an entirely different extreme I can't possibly understand! I dearly want to live in, love, and experience Mongolia now, but even being very accustomed to wild and extreme weather like they don't have (tornadoes are a way of life here), being so dry, sunny, and permafrost devoid of life is an emptiness even Nebraskans would have trouble reckoning with!
This phenomenon is common in the norther hemisphere. In Russia there are cities that reach 35c in summer and -35c in winter
Actually, us living near the equator are the weakest when it comes to tolerance to temperature swings. We live between 25-35 Celcius all year round. Everybody else can go between 0 to 35.
There's one thing we're a champion at though, it's tolerating super high humidity 😂
@@micahphilsonJust like how Nebraska is in the middle of the warm air of the south and cold air from the north. Mongolia borders the Chinese desert and the eastern Russian Siberia. All those hot and warm wind go through Mongolia. Theres actually A LOT of Tornados in Mongolia just like Nebraska is in Tornado alley but nobody hears or records them cause of the population density being mostly one city.
as a meteorologist, i genuinely appreciate the effort you went into to explaining the climate of mongolia. you did an excellent job of simplifying a very complicated discussion into digestible information for non-mets :)
As a weather enthusiast, yet much uninformed kinda hobbyist in meteorology, the way he put it was perfect! Easily comprehensible, mostly comprehensive, and extremely relatable!
@BestDitch Well it is in Russia , for now .
You... you call yourselves "mets"?...
@@MrZAP17 why wouldn't they? Dentists call themselves dents, medical personnel call themselves meds etc
Nerd
I bet Mongolia is a wild anmials haven as well because there is still so much room for wildlife to thrive
I am an Mongolian and thank you for talking about my country
As a Mongolian, thank you for this upload. This is a very well researched video and it accurately pinpoints crucial facts why Mongolia is how it is today.
@@zyalss07 Yeah he probably Lying.
agree!
@@zyalss07 yu shaagaad bga gichii ve
@@Just0wnedEsport hhha he is Mongolian. Only Mongolian will write this lol
im mongolian and why is it hard for people to believe mongolians have access to the internet lmao
All my life I wanted to visit Mongolia, and stay with nomadic families. I did not want to travel in bus tours with other Americans. A few years ago, as a single elderly American woman, I went from one yurt to another… yes, Mongolian nomadic families list on airbnb! I have traveled much of the world and Mongolia is my favorite country. i loved every minute of that trip. The Mongolian people are hilarious, interesting and absurdly kind, and the landscape is astounding. It was not “easy” travel…. but if you don’t mind living under very basic circumstances, I would encourage you to visit!
the easy ver of this travel is somewhy kazakstan
you can come to inner mongolia，it is more fun
You and I share similar mindsets! Did you travel between air bnb destinations? How long did you stay? As a single non-citizen what was your experience with safety?
I’m currently working in Asia and have been dying to plan a feasible trip to explore the Steppe during holiday!
Sorry to pester you! Any information is incredibly helpful :)
Did you learn Mongolian, or were you able to get by with English relatively well?
I'd actually love to travel there one day, Can we get in touch so you'd share in details how you organized yourself there ?
I'm from Russia and I always dreamed of visiting Mongolia one day. I'm a big fan of Tibetian Buddhism and I find nomadic lifestyle so fascinating. Thank you for the video.
Можешь поехать туда из Тывы, в Монголию ведет прямая дорога, другой вопрос что в Тыву через Саянские горы не так просто попасть 😂
Это элементарно. Долетаешь на победе в Улан-Удэ и садишься на автобус. Самый бюджетный маршрут. А через Туву...Это бандитская нищая республика, населенная дикими сильно пьющими неадекватами, лучше туда вообще не заезжать - разве что на танке.
Tibetan Buddhism is almost dead in Mongolia today owing to the severe restrictions put on the religion during the Soviet satellite-state era If you want to experience Tibetian Buddhism, you can still have what little is left of it in Tuva & Kalmykia which is in Russia .😳
This was incredible intriguing to watch. The current issues going on are extremely important and definitely highlight some very important things going on globally. I hope to travel to Mongolia someday
I grew up as a nomadic mongolian and we are very much used to the cold winter we prepare for it by eating dairy and usually avoiding any large amounts of meat in the summer and absolutely gobble them up in winter, like nomadic mongolians eat nothing but meat in winter and we also keep our animals inside a shelter in winter as opposed to letting them roam free everywhere under our supervision in the summer
Of course theres the occasional "zud" which is a snowstorm even worse than the already brutally cold winter
That is so cool. I am ethnic Hungarian and learned recently that the Avar people came from Siberia. They were living in Carpathian basin (Western most edge of Eurasian steppe) when the Magyars rode in from Siberia forming Hungary by mixing with them and Slavs and Turks. I think all Siberian people are closer than we once thought when you look at shared culture, languages, and now using modern science DNA comparisons of modern and ancient samples and the nomadic technology and skills were incredible.
A 2022 study concluded that the Avar Khaganate rode from modern Mongolia to modern Hungary in only 10 YEARS making it one of if not the furthest and fastest paced mass human migration in history. Imagine going from bordering ancient China to the Roman empire just in the span of half of a human childhood. I love that the Kuraltaj is seeing people take pride in Siberian and nomadic heritage. I grow autoflower strains of cannabis the same type our Scythian ancestors smoked thousands of years ago when ancient Greeks and Chinese encountered them on the steppe.
@@lizardjoel its always nice to learn about other cultures
@@munkhbilguunsoronzon-od9246 likewise :) I bet both cultures share great jerky that's the most ancient nomadic / extreme cold weather tradition that was passed down and enjoyed by my family today although it's from the grasslands of Texas not Hungary lol
Interesting information.
Pretty interesting considering how many Asians are lactose intolerant
Omg, thank you so much for making this video. I’m Mongolian and I always had trouble explaining my country to others. Most people think I’m over exaggerating the conditions of my country. When I go inside a vehicle during November, I can see my breath, the windows on planes are frozen, and I have to moonwalk against the cold air to a public bathroom to warm up. On the first day of April, there was a blizzard, the weather sure fooled me. Thank u so much for explaining the climate to others
No such thing as "over exaggerating".
@@JamieWave Ofcourse there is.
It used to rule the world as the 2nd biggest empire in history
Wow, really? I don't know much about Mongolia even though I'm part Mongolian, but even then I totally believe how extreme their weather is. They're right next to Siberia, who is also known for their extreme weather, so why wouldn't Mongolia be like that too?
It's this, right?
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WOW! This was extremely informative! I can't wait to see more of your videos!
There are two other larger urban areas (Erdenet and Darkhan), but they are also in the central north area of Mongolia, quite close to Ulaanbaatar.
Idk what it is about Mongolia but I’m fascinated by the country. The culture, history, climate, everything.
Idk what it is either; they're using a Globe Model so the video is fake entertainment.
They are the Dothraki
im half mongolian half moroccan, i visited mongolia only once but ill never ever forget just lying on the ground staring up into the night sky and seeing so many stars and colours
It's like Northern China except way poorer, drier, and more polluted
@@unholykill333u9 ...what?
The Mongol Empire and Modern Mongolia is basically the historical equivalent of getting your max level account hacked and creating a new account from scratch
wish they had never reached that max level account, they were better being in those pockets of theirs, world map would have been different if mongol invasions hadn't happened
this was probably one of the best comments I've seen here. thank you. much love from Mongolia.
It's more like resurrecting Roman Empire from an Romanian province.
The Mongol empire were comprised of an array of tribes. The modern Mongolia is one of them (the Khalkha Mongol），and the direct offsprings of Genghis Khan, the Golden Family, has been living in modern Inner Mongolia, China.
@@najibullahghafori3739 L
@@terryshi5620 Nice try, but that's false. Chingis Khaan's birth place Deluun Boldog( It's said in "The Secret History of the Mongols") is now exist in Dadal district, Khentii province, Mongolia, more north than Ulaanbaatar. And that's always been The Khalkha people's cradle land.
As a half Mongolian, I thank you for talking about it since barely anyone knows what it is and educating many.
How fascinating!! Mongolia had always intrigued me because there's so less information on it. What a wonderful video!
As a Mongolian, I approve this message. We are having a difficult time threading fine line between the true independence and a satellite state of these 2 big countries. Send help!
be careful what you wish for.
@@andrewtataj497 why all westerns are like this, they had all the luxury of independence and freedom and yet they suppress others from having a basic human right.
@@thek_king we think we have freedom ourselves but we don’t, most will balk and go but but but at this comment but it’s the truth.
Why dont you surrender yourself to China, wouldnt your lives become better in the long run ?
Ooof thats a dangerous thought mate.
I am from Kazakhstan, and I am glad to know more about our regional friends. I am really hoping that someday we will become even more close than today. I think Mongolia and Central Asia can become big friends 👍🏻
қалайсың?
@@gintermensayl7652 қалайсын?
@@aianchik2873 шүкір жақсы, өзің?
@@gintermensayl7652 қалай ойлайсың
Қазақстандада осындай проблемалар барма?
@@gintermensayl7652шүкір бәрі жақсы
This was very informative. Thank you! I had no idea until now how fascinating and unique Mongolia's climate is.
This is an amazing video, you did a great job explaining the complex geopolitics of the region!!!
I would love to see my country flourish one day, far too long the government of Mongolia has only worried about filling their own greedy pockets
Like all states on the world... But there seems to be enough land to found free private cities
It is not like all the other states. Certainly it is not the worst of the worst, but the whole fucking government is corrupt asf. It's sad, truly sad.
Would you say it's more a cultural problem (wisdom of the authority, saving face, criticism isn't seen as positive) or technological (poor or slow communication, access to independent news media)?
@@mephisto7549 Land, yes. Money and opportunity, not so much. Mongolia unfortunately has one of the worst hands in the world in terms of economic potential. And this means investment in things like state infrastructure and whatnot(necessary to build out new cities) is extremely limited. I'm gonna go for a big hot take here - Mongolia would be better off under Chinese rule. I know that sounds horrible, but having access to that greater economic pool of wealth would mean a lot more opportunity to grow. Independence is a great virtue for a people to have, but Mongolia as an individual entity has very limited potential. The alternative take here is that perhaps many Mongolians prefer to live simpler and limited lives if it means being free, which is 100% valid.
That's all the political class. They tell you what you want to hear to get into office and once they're in, they do everything to solidify their power and position.
What's interesting to me is that China has twice as many ethnic Mongols than Mongolia itself
The same happens with tadjiks in Afganistan or azeris in Iran.
Very similar with Azerbaijan, the country itself has 10 million people and Iran has up to 20 million Azeris.
I mean .. this makes sense when you consider that Kublai Khan was once the emperor of China and that there was a whole Mongolian dynasty.
If you think about it even Russia has even more Mongols than Mongolia. Mongolia is truly fascinating country perhaps even at the lowest point they still managed to stay independent.
@@MultiHeheboy That's incorrect. There are about 600k mongols in Russia.
I love your analysis. Shows like yours are greatly appreciated
Thank you for your interesting and informative video.
As a child, I looked at maps alot. I've seen Mongolia on the map, but I only read what the encyclopedia said about it. My dad bought us a used set of colliers encyclopedia.
Asked some Mongolian foreign exchange students about what they thought was most unique about their own country compared to those they had visited (many had been to more than just the US). Population density was the first thing they pointed to, pretty quickly and unanimously.
Cool
Australia is a much larger country (about the size of China). It's hard to put into word the isolation you feel living in a town in the interior.
@@lollerkeet I genuinely dream of taking a trip - Or even more - To the inner parts of Australia. I myself am not an introvert, But those harsh environments like Mongolia and in Australia seem just... Perfect. Beautiful. Blissful. Taking a trip to the Opal mines, As a geology enthusiast, And getting one for myself, Is a longstanding dream.
As they should
@@lollerkeetaustralia is about 2million^2 km smaller than china.. not sure what you mean by “about the size of china”
This is one of the best basic summary videos about Mongolian geopolitics I’ve seen on RUclips. One thing I would add to this video is that while it is true Mongols are a minority in Inner Mongolia, the vast majority of Chinese are living in the in the cities in the south of Inner Mongolia. Meaning that the countryside (99% of land) is still majority Mongol. Just the southern cities are Chinese, but since there are so many people in those cities, that’s why the population statistics are skewed.
If this is the best, we have a lot of problems b/c this is at best a C+ work in Uni lmao
The North of inner Mongolia province is also inhabited my millions of Chinese. A simple glance at the prefecture level breakdown of population by ethnic background will tell you this.
And many chinese people register themselves and their children as mongol minority to get access to the benefit of ethnic groups receive in those regions . And lets not talk about the mongol people who got married to chinese through the generations , i wouldnt count them as mongols . They dont speak or understand and value mongol .
@@WilliamCarterII Look forward to watching your B+ soon
The prefecture level data has lots of gerrymandering, for example, the Baotou city borders extend all the way north.
its really fascinating to learn about these things, first got a peek into mongolia via the grand tour when they were airdropped there and had to build a car to get somewhere populated
it really seemed weird for me as to how such a large country was so focused on either a big city or scattered tribes
Now is one of the few times I get to mention my sophomore year biology teacher who did not believe in Mongolia. Not that she didn't believe in their government or their culture, she literally doesn't believe that the land we call Mongolia exists. She thinks that is a fake addition to maps, and I never got a straight answer as to why.
Thats so strange lmao
thats weird tbh. her fault for being so ignorant. was she american?
@@buckbeak7164 yeah, I live in the USA. Mongolia denial is not common here LOL but beliefs just as stupid are. She didn't believe in evolution either, strange for a bio teacher
I am sure that she is the karen-ist Karen 😂
Hi i`m from Mongolia. Maybe your teacher need visit to Mongolia.
I'm a Mongolian as well. Thank you for bringing awareness. Please, dear tourists and investors, visit our country. We won't disappoint you.
For tourism, where in Mongolia do you recommend? And what activities?
@@noseboop4354 Terelj national park is close to the city and thereupon easily accessible - a must. Explore sand dunes if you've never seen a desert. Camel rides are available. If you want to see greens and wilderness, go to northern Mongolia during summer. Ofc, horse rides are available there
@@turuus5215 Great, thanks for the answer.
why would you want tourists to fuck up your country, Mongolia seems pure and uncorrupted from western and new age degeneracy
I've seen videos of fellow Australians doing 4wd (overlanding) trips of Mongolia. Looked stunning.
I swear half of RealLifeLore's videos are about how some country is mostly empty.
I've been looking for someone else to mention this, LOL
and it's always because they have no water.
And it can be answered in like 5 minutes tops but he just repeats everything multiple times with the MOST annoying voice
@zc pretty much. Funny how u need water to supports tons of ppl.
not empty, more... uninfected.
The amount of research you done for this video is amazing great video
This was very interesting and scary at the same time. Thank you!
I am so happy to see this video , a Mongolian from Inner Mongolia. Although we are both Mongolian people, I don't have extensive knowledge about Outer Mongolia. Many Mongolians living in Inner Mongolia have transitioned from a nomadic lifestyle and now reside in the surrounding metropolitan areas. While we still use traditional Mongolian script, our proficiency in Mongolian writing has become less fluent compared to Chinese characters, and this has become more common among children. It saddens me to see the dilution of Mongolian culture with the advancement of modern civilization. Although we Mongolians are considered compatriots by the Han Chinese, and I love China as well, an independent Mongolia holds great significance for me. I hope that Mongolia can revive traditional Mongolian script, as it would facilitate communication and the preservation of traditional Mongolian culture among Mongolian people in Inner Mongolia. Thank you for uploading videos about Mongolia.
As a Han Chinese from Northeastern China, I'm glad to make a number of outstanding Mongolian friends. Mongolian culture is indeed charming, and it would be a great loss for everyone to see the cultures slowly vanish and get lost forever.
isnt china banned teaching Mongolian script in schools ?
@@Orgil.The CCP would be behind that
@@Orgil. there are mongolian language schools in Inner Mongolia, students can choose to go to the language scool and normal public scool. But the public school use Manderin in teaching. It is same in USA that the public school teaches in English, and American Chinese Korean Japanese usually go to language school on weekends. Is it possible to have public school teaching in Chinese in USA?
@@yukikui8950 no there arent,china banned teaching Mongolian in schools.classic wumao always with whataboutism
As a Kazakh, I always thought we are the ones doomed to depend on those two giants due to our geographical position, but comparing to our Mongolian brothers, actually things are not so bad.
У нас с климатом тоже не ахти
very similiar,but mongolia is even more independant than kazakhstan,Russia for some reason is more into invading kazakhs than mongols
Yes and no, kazakhstan is obviously much richer, larger and less dependent on trade with Russia and China than Mongolia is but they are much more involved in your internal affairs. Mongolia at least can counter the balance between russia, china and america to maintain their autonomy.
We need to create a 4 party neutral zone in between China, Kazakstan, Russia and Mongolia where 4 countries could trade their goods freely. They deliberately cut the border in current Mongolian and Kazakstan shape so that the 2 countries don’t have direct acces to each other…
@@1wasinAlphai always sensed a foulplay in this 76km area that seperates us
i love how you get to see so much nature untouched by humans, it’s truly beautiful
Man, Mongolians got screwed with geography. But they certainly are a cool group of people with a very interesting culture! I hope we can work together to make the future of Mongolia and the world better. That desert expansion is really worrying me.
Mongolia has always been one of the most mysterious countries to me. The culture and history is fascinating
Il make you discover more.raw meat is a famous dish in mongolia
@@jackwright2012wtf?
@@arima77 is true
@@jackwright2012 no japan koreans eat raw meat sushi is actually raw meat you know?
@@arima77 yes but Mongolians eat alot and alot of raw meat. They don't eat sushi they eat steak sized raw meat
I feel Mongolia is always overshadowed by it's two neighbors, so it was cool to finally see a video dive into what makes it unique.
Both of its neighbors were ''shadowed''by mongolia for like a hundred years back in the 13th century 😂
@@terryshi5620 Ah, yes, the only significant achievement of mongolia. Which got braged about so many times that it almost seems to have any impact in morden world.
@@thecrab3128 What do you expect lol. No shit its gonna be a hot topic when suddenly just a bunch of nomadic pastorialists from the middle of nowhere end up establishing the largest continguous land empire in history.
@@Quincius *And the shortest empire in history.
@@thecrab3128The Khan himself said he didn't care to make an empire that would last. He simply wanted to leave his mark on the world, and that he did
Nice documentary thanks for all these informations.
However, where are the bibliography / all your sources ?
i think it's pretty amazing that inner mongolia has more than 7 times the population of outer mongolia, while also suffering from most of the geographic challenges that you mention
Thank you so much for spreading awareness about my humble “little” country. I greatly appreciate how everything is historically accurate, which must have taken a tremendous amount of research on your behalf.
why you is calling 18th biggest country little?
@@user-sg1lk6cb9k that’s why it is in quotation mark. I do not mean it literally as I know the land is big, but in terms of economics, population, and world recognition, Mongolia is small.
hey do you live in the capitol or somewhere else
@@solev2411 hey, yes I am from Ulaanbaatar
I want to visit and normally work abroad when I travel. What's a good job to work while traveling in monholia (travel gets expensive and I find it better to experience a country when you work there).
Ironically, Mongolia has the capacity to become Asia's Power generator with so much sun and wind .. it just needs investment in building facilities and tying up the transmission lines.
I was thinking the same thing when he mentioned how much of the year is clear sunny days!
And sending them across tens of thousands of kilometers of nothingness and mountains to the closest largely inhabited settlement. Good luck finding that kind of investment.
Wouldn't it be VERY expensive to send that power to the far distances of the nearest foreign cities?
Iceland runs it's aluminum processing with geothermal energy. Maybe Mongolia could do something similar with it's energy resources.
@@Apagadorable I’m not sure that Mongolia has geothermal potential.
Mongolia is one of my dream destinations. Absolutely fascinating place and culture
I am a woefully ignorant American. Of course I knew about Mongolia, and Genghis Khan. I could find it on a map. But I am shocked at the challenges modern Mongolians face. And the history! My goodness. Fascinating. Thank you very much for this excellent presentation.
hearing that the desert is growing 4-7km a year is so damn grim
capitalism destroys everything little by little.. :(
Ikr I just heard it, what can be done for such a dark situation
其实中国可以帮他们解决这个状况，但是……😂
I’ve always thought that Mongolia is a country shrouded in mystery, a country with a well known history. I hope the people of Mongolia will enjoy a prosperous and peaceful life 👍🏼
The Mongolian death worm still exist somewhere in that country
You mixed Butan with Mongolia.
@@sluzbazaorganizacijucentra4050 No, I mean Mongolia, Bhutan is also a beautiful country
To the west, Mongolia *is* still rather mysterious. At least among the "poorly educated" and wilfully ignorant. The incurious, the self absorbed, the narcissistic.
In America there are tens of millions of "Poorly Educated."
An epidemic of willfull ignorance and stupidity.
People who couldn't even state the correct continent that Mongolia is on, or the general region of that continant. Those street interview "IQ Quiz" vids are alarming.
Many of the Idiocracy has never even heard of Mongolia, or couldn't spell it, even though it should be easy.
After all, spelling " Mangoleeuh" should be a piece of cake - right? 😂
Unless a westerner has put in the time required to study and understand places like Mongolia, it's going too be a mystery.
Even most people's own country remains a bit of a "mystery" to them, and it's understandable.
Most people only have time and energy the devote to themselves and their interests. That's human nature. The human condition.
Peaceful, where was their peace during Genghis Khan , AKA " The Golden Hordes ." What goes around comes around .
what an amazing video thank you
Fantastic video. You're brilliant.
Me: hmmm.. do I really want to watch a 33m long video about Mongolia?
Also me: Yes.
Stretching a topic to over insight idea is the job of Toyota corolla
Your so crazy
This man's job is just to stretch the videos for as long as possible
The answer is: desert
Yeah…. the length of their videos are getting ridiculous now. The first 3 minutes could’ve been said in 30 seconds. It’s genuinely hard to maintain focus - not because I can’t tolerate a 33 minute video, but because of the sheer repetition of points. “Mongolia is a huge country with a small population… it has [x] low population density which means there’s barely any people across most of the land… this shows it has a small population despite being a huge country… its population density is so low compared to [y] country which also is a huge country with a small population…” like bloody hell I heard you the first time.
As long as you don't mind half of it just talks about the climate. Ok cold and dry I got it.
I’ve been living in Ulaanbaatar for a year and a half, you did an excellent job balancing most the issues that we deal with here. The only things I think that could tell a more complete story would be adding the potentially massive change coming from the recent expansion of the OT copper mine and the ongoing, persistent corruption issues. Thanks for the video!
What do you do there?
@@ranjittyagi9354 Live
Ulaanbaatar is changing dramatically. About a decade and a half ago UB is nearly empty and people were an uneducated but now it’s all changed.
Hey @reallifelore if u cld use Topography map while telling abt Geography of any region wld be very helpful. Thanks for ur grt work.
Very educative, thank you.
I'm from the UK and I have always been fascinated by Mongolia, I would love to visit Mongolia and understand its culture. Thank you for a really interesting video
If you want to learn about Soviet culture, you should go to Mongolia
Ah yes irredentism
The fact that over 1M people have viewed this video about Mongolia of all things in just a couple of days speaks volumes about this channel
@Itz_Thermite about the same actually
Whats wrong with mongolia?
Mongolia is rarely the topic of debate in the world so many People hooped on the train when given a chance.
One of my bucket list
No rain
Sunny
Hot summer
Cold winter
Mountainous
Sounds literally perfect
VERY cold winter
Touch grass? THERE ISNT, GOAT ATE IT ALL
I've always been fascinated with the peoples of North-Central Asia, how they make their homes in such an extreme place - tibet, altay, tarim, central asia, mongolia, and siberia.
Did a bit of digging and found that after the capital Ulanbataar (pop 1.6 million), the next largest cities (Erdenet and Darkhan) are each only just reaching past the 100k mark (the usual threshold where you would distinguish a city from a town), so not even a tenth the size of Ulanbataar. Thereafter, all the remaining cities scattered across this sizeable chunk of landmass are each under 50k population-wise, with only around 25 cities that have populations ranging from 10k to 44k. And yes, they are all spread out and extremely remote, many of them serving as capitals for their respective regions.
Balls
A few years ago, I was at the eye surgeon, ophthalmologist, and in came a young woman intern. She had the facial features of a Korean, but her accent was somewhat Russian or something I could not place. Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦 has a very diverse population and I can usually place accents, but I was stuck.
So I asked, well she was from Mongolia here in Canada training. Welcome 😊
Thank you, John. Btw at least most urban Mongolians aspire to immigrate to countries like yours because ours is really bad. Continue being kind to them in case you encounter many more later.
@turuus5215 We should always be kind to others, because everyone is fighting a battle that you know nothing about.
so in other words, you met someone from Mongolia... cool story bro
@@likemostthings Yah, I guess that would be the short version, Lol 😆
Did you get her number? 👀
Im australian and I thought our place was pretty big for no reason, mongolia humbled this thought 😊
I enjoyed the 3 minutes explaining that numbers higher and lower than the example are in fact higher and lower than the example, and that the percentage of an example and it's opposite add up to 100%
Glad to see there are many people who want to visit Mongolia. There is a wonderful summer Naadam festival held on the 11th to 15th of July in Mongolia, featuring events in wrestling, horse racing, and archery. I highly recommend visiting during this time to experience Mongolian traditional festivities firsthand.
Mongolia looks so cool
Damn thats interesting!
Is it held on Ulan Baatar?
@@howlrichard1028 everywhere usually.
I live in Mongolia as an English vacuum cleaner. Great video. Come visit Mongolia! It's amazing! Better than anywhere!
what do you do for fun? I dream about horseback riding on the Mongolian steppe
To cold mate. Out of curiosity what's the internet like there?
@@timgooding2448 Lmao just like the rest of the world's internet but a bit slower
I am curious to know how is like to Mongolia but i live in Albania.
@@beck1san Probably better than my internet. Australian asking.
Interesting and informative. Enjoyed viewing the Yak pulled wagons driven by the herders. Excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what the orator was describing. Very professional research project. Along with descriptive maps. Probably be in their best interest to allow pipelines to send energy from the Soviet union to China.
I’ve always been fascinated with Mongolia since learning about it as a kid. Such a beautiful country with a harsher lifestyles than most but it’s definitely on the bucket list of places to visit before I hit the hay
Before you hit the hay? lol, I like it. No time like the present.
Mongolia is on a 12-Steppe program.
nice one.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
😂
ten yard penalty!
The Outer Mongols overgrazed and raised too many sheep, leading to increasingly severe grassland desertification and sandstorms threatening the air in China. They also burn waste every winter, and fires spread to China. Chinese people are very painful.
I watched korean variety show that filmed in mongolia and amazed how beautiful the landscape is.. the village is really pretty and every home there has huge front yard.. insane.
Coldest I ever felt was -45c, in Saskatoon Saskatchewan. It was so cold you had to wear something over your mouth while you breathed to help prevent your lungs from freezing from the cold air.
Another interesting fact: Mongolians basically use 3 different alphabets. They have a traditional mongolian script that is written top to bottom but is not used super often. Then most things are written in Cyrillic Script, but online when using their phones for example they use the latin alphabet
Not true.
There are at least 5 million Mongolians using their traditional Mongolian script, AKA Uyghur script, (dont know the traditional Mongolia script is Uyghur script, huh?)everyday in inner mogolia, China.
Mongol script isn't Uyghur script, just like Cyrillic isn't Greek script. Based on but NOT same. Uyghur script doesn't even exist now anyway, they are all muslims now.
Inner Mongols aren't Mongolians, they don't live in Mongolia. Also Inner Mongol(s) population is less than 4 million according to its demography, many of them are only Mongol "name only", people who can't speak a simple sentence in Mongolian, let alone writing. @@Dordord
@@nyamka3978 it's the opposite, many of the inner Mongolians can not speak mandarin Chinese
You have no idea, just don't open your mouth
@@nyamka3978 every year, the country Mongolia sends a lot students to inner mogolia to learn back their own traditional scripts.
Not mention the mogols living in inner mogolia can be tracked back to the Golden family, while those so called mogols living in outer Mongolia are just the tribes once conquered by Mongols who eventually called themselves mogols ever after
@@DordordNot true at all. Mongolian script is in the national educational system and is regularly taught from 6th grade. Heck, it is even planned to be 2nd national alphabet by 2025.
3:24 To put that number into even further perspective, the rural population density of Mongolia is even less than the total population density of Alaska, which is 1.2 people per km. Although to be fair, that does include Alaska's cities.
that 1.2 people figure is actually per square mile not square kilometer alaska actually has 0.5 people per sq km
which one has harsher climate? it gets cold in alaska and also there people are flocked to major cities
Alaska is just better though, sorry Mongolia, but you have no fish!
@@fantakilla1 This would be correct except you have to factor in that most Americans are quite dense so it takes 2.59 Mongolians to equal one American
@@effexon Easily Mongolia, from Alaska and while I'm in southern most I've seen enough of fairbanks winters and seen the forecasts for barrow. The thing that really kills mongolia is how much erosion there is combined with how much wind their is. Also Wind is a huge factor for how cold hurts (remember wind chill factor).
i have always wanted to visit mangolia, as i was curious of the country and the history. This video has just made my wish to visit mangolia even more of a permannet one. Meet you someday mangolia.
*Mongolia
KEY HIGHLIGHTS
Cold weather: Most of Mongolia is cold and dry, making it difficult for people to live there.
Mountains: Mongolia is very mountainous, with many high peaks and valleys. This makes it hard to travel and build cities.
Nomadic lifestyle: Mongolians have traditionally been nomadic herders, moving from place to place to find food for their animals. This lifestyle does not require a lot of people in one place.
It sounds a lot like a bigger more extreme Wyoming. Extremely dry, hot summers, frigid unpredictable winters, inhospitable non arable land and population concentrated in just a few places. Even the B roll in the background could have tricked me if you told me it was Wyoming especially the bit with the snow blowing across the road.
The only missing thing is own tv incident
(Went to google if there was)
The title wasn't really grabbing my attention, I figured that the rain shadow effect of the Himalayas would be the single largest factor to consider, and that the dry landscape would affect the population the most. But you really opened my eyes to all of the other considerations worth taking into account. What does Mongolia even export? Now I know. The ecological and climate situation were interesting and sad, and the geopolitics are particularly sharp at the moment as well. Thanks for making this.
One thing he didn't mention is that cold air still travels down from the mountain carrying moisture, so the Gobi desert will never go past the mountain range. It would have to go around it somehow.
Listening to this, I can’t help but see a lot of comparisons to the great plains where I grew up. I grew up a little east of what some might call the true Great Plains. Basically, the area east of the hundredth Meridian to about the Missouri river still gets enough rainfall for some crop agriculture, though in Nebraska we irrigate the hell out of the land. anyways, hearing your descriptions reminds me so much of places like the Nebraska sandhills, or the South Dakota Plains from the Missouri river to the Badlands. I’m sure that that was definitely intended as these part of the United States seem very similar to Mongolia, and many counties in these sections have densities that are quite similar.
very interesting video, i watched such a long video after a long time!!
So much history in one episode. It could take years to understand and contextualize all of this.
It's very dense but he didn't include a lot of important events just the picture over all
I am Mongolian too but live in Ulaanhudag (a city with less population in Mongolia) and can confirm all the reasons stated in this video.
@@zyalss07 how can you prove that. I do
@@FacelessBoyy-_- You currently live in Lawton, Oklahoma
Source: I am hiding in your walls
@@Emp31 first of all I never went to the US
Za sain baina uu.
ene heden malnuud yugaa ch oilgohgui bj hun golohtoi goo.
hunii unertseggui pizdaanuud ymdaa.
@@hotagu4187 tatla ahahhaahahahhaha
Excellent ! That was absolutely fascinating. Quick question, does Mongolia have a land border with Kazakhstan ? On the map it looks like they're not touching and are separated by a tiny corridor. Is that correct ?
Yes
The easternmost point of the Oblast is within about 50 kilometres of the westernmost tip of Mongolia; however, Kazakhstan and Mongolia do not share a common border, the two countries being separated by a small part of Russia and China.
In the classic Sid Meyers Civilization games, Mongolia would typically make just one city and not do much of anything for the whole game. They would make a lot of units, but if they started out on a medium sized island they would just never do much of anything. Seeing this video it makes sense now.
This might be your best video yet. Such a brilliant and comprehensive take on the history of this part of the world, showing love and attention to such an interesting and vibrant country such as Mongolia. I especially loved the connection and emphasis on the Eurasian steppe and its impact on global humanity.
Trump said there ain't no global warming and he's a genius just ask him so this talk about that is a hoax cause trump NEVER LIES
This here is my favorite learning channel on RUclips. Thank you for your excellent work!!!!
beautiful editing
Great video very interesting..,
Double check your stats on Australia though please there is more than 5 major cities..,
I’m not usually a nitpicker like this but it would’ve elaborated the point even more
In 2020 during online school, I had a Mongolian friend, and I was playing kahoot with him, and it was in Mongolian. At first I thought it was Russian, but he gave me the answers because they were about Mongolia. Mongolian culture is so interesting 🤔