Mongolia

Facts

What the numbers say about Mongolia

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 10.9× the size of Mongolia.
• Mongolia ranks 19th of 239 by area but only 135th of 237 by population: it holds fewer people than its size suggests.
• At 2.2 people per km², Mongolia is the 181st most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 47°N is drawn about 2.1× too large in area, so Mongolia looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Mongolia's main territory stretches about 1,180 km north to south and 2,380 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 1,564,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 1,565,000 km², to within 2%.

How Mongolia measures up

Mongolia holds 5.0% of the land area and 0.1% of the people of the 51 countries listed for Asia. In Eastern Asia it is the 2nd largest of 8.

Where Mongolia sits

• Mongolia's centre lies at 47.0°N, 103.1°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 5,220 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 42°N to 52°N, about 1,170 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Mongolia had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Mongolia would have 1.96 billion people. It has 3.4 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Mongolia would have 5.8 million people. It has 3.4 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 113.2 million.

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