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| .mn Mongolia |
Overview Mongolia
lies in the northern part of the Central Asian Plateau between the meridian of
87º 44' and 119º 56' eastern longitude and in latitudes 52º 09'
and 41º35' north. The distance between the country’s westernmost and easternmost
points is 2,392 kilometres (1,486.6 miles), and 1,259 kilometres (782.5 miles)
between its northernmost and southernmost points. Mongolia has a total surface
area of 1,566,500 square kilometres (973,586 square miles) spread over three time
zones, the sixth to the eighth, starting from the prime meridian 0º. Between 1924 and 1990, Mongolia was a one-party state and had a centrally planned economy. Its first democratic election was held in July 1990, which established a parliamentary republic. There are more than 683 primary and secondary schools and 172 universities or higher education institutions in Mongolia. The literacy rate is 89.5 percent. Content Mongolian is the national language. It is one of the languages of the Mongolian subgroup of the Altaic group. The history of the Mongolian language is long and complex. Its development can be divided into three periods: ancient, middle and contemporary. Print media There are 995 newspapers and periodicals registered with the Ministry of Justice at present. Most of them are privately owned and concentrated in Ulaanbaatar, the capital city. There are five daily newspapers, three English language weeklies and hundreds of small newspapers published at different frequencies. The Law on Information Freedom, adopted in 1998, led to liberalisation of the state monopoly in the mass media sector. The daily newspapers with the largest circulation are the Odriin Sonin, Zuuny Medee, the privately owned and independent newspaper Onoodor, Seruuleg, the local government paper Ulaanbaatar and the party newspaper Unen. The state news agency, MONTSAME, produces domestic and foreign news for all aimags, cities, government institutions, companies, the press and other mass media. Online news in English includes EDN (E-mail Daily News) distributed only in the form of e-mail and Bizmongolia.mn, a business weekly distributed via e-mail to subscribers and available for free at <http://bizmongolia.mn>. Broadcasting Radio broadcasting started in 1934 and national television broadcasting was launched in 1967. The Mongolian National TV and Radio is the only broadcasting station that covers the entire country. There are another four local television stations: Eagle TV, Channel 25 and UBS TV in Ulaanbaatar and UBS RGB in Darkhan. There are smaller regional television stations in all the aimags. There
are 48 FM radio stations in the country. Out of this total 13 stations are based
in Ulaanbaatar and there is at least one regional station in each of the aimag
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