16 résultats pour "mongolia"
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Mongolia - geografía.
Los archivos estatales de Mongolia y la Biblioteca Pública del Estado, con tres millones de volúmenes, están en Ulan-Bator. En la capital también se encuentran el MuseoCentral Estatal, que contiene tesoros artísticos y antigüedades, el Museo de Bellas Artes, con una colección de pinturas y esculturas, dos museos que exhiben detalles delmovimiento, y el Museo de Religión, con una colección de reliquias lamaístas. 5 ECONOMÍA La agricultura y la cría de ganado constituyen la base de la economía de...
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Mongolia - ficha de geographia.
por sectores económicos y presupuesto nacional proceden de la base de datos del Banco Mundial (www.worldbank.org). La información sobre unidad monetaria, exportaciones eimportaciones, recursos naturales, agricultura e industrias proviene del último Europa World Yearbook , y de diferentes publicaciones del Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI).Nota: Debido al redondeo, algunos totales pueden no sumar el 100%.Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993--2008 Microsoft Corporation. Reservados todos los dere...
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Mongolia Facts and Figures.
Muslim 5 percent Nonreligious 30 percent Other 2 percent HEALTH AND EDUCATIONLife expectancy Total 67.3 years (2008 estimate) Female 69.8 years (2008 estimate) Male 64.9 years (2008 estimate) Infant mortality rate 41 deaths per 1,000 live births (2008 estimate) Population per physician 375 people (2004) Population per hospital bed 87 people (1991) Literacy rateTotal 99.2 percent (2005 estimate) Female 99.1 percent (2005 estimate) Male 99.2 percent (2005 estimate) Educat...
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China - country.
North China lies between the Mongolian Steppe on the north and the Yangtze River Basin on the south. It stretches west from the Bo Hai gulf and the Yellow Sea to theeastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau. Administratively, North China includes Beijing and Tianjin municipalities; Shandong and Shanxi provinces; most of Hebei, Henan,and Shaanxi provinces; and portions of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and of Jiangsu, Anhui, and Gansu provinces. Humans have lived in the agriculturally rich region of Nor...
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Genghis Khan
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Genghis Khan (1167?
died in August 1227, in his summer quarters in the district of Qingshui south of the Liupan Shan (Liupan Mountains) in Gansu, China. IV THE MONGOL FORCES Genghis Khan unleashed a seemingly invincible military force. Although usually outnumbered, his forces prevailed on the battlefield through absolute discipline, a well-understood chain of command, superior mobility, and innovative military tactics. The Mongol forces were organized into several formations of 10,000 horse-mounted soldiers, the...
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Genghis Khan.
died in August 1227, in his summer quarters in the district of Qingshui south of the Liupan Shan (Liupan Mountains) in Gansu, China. IV THE MONGOL FORCES Genghis Khan unleashed a seemingly invincible military force. Although usually outnumbered, his forces prevailed on the battlefield through absolute discipline, a well-understood chain of command, superior mobility, and innovative military tactics. The Mongol forces were organized into several formations of 10,000 horse-mounted soldiers, the...
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Genghis Khan - History.
died in August 1227, in his summer quarters in the district of Qingshui south of the Liupan Shan (Liupan Mountains) in Gansu, China. IV THE MONGOL FORCES Genghis Khan unleashed a seemingly invincible military force. Although usually outnumbered, his forces prevailed on the battlefield through absolute discipline, a well-understood chain of command, superior mobility, and innovative military tactics. The Mongol forces were organized into several formations of 10,000 horse-mounted soldiers, the...
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Rusia - geografía.
La frontera meridional de la Rusia europea comprende la joven cordillera del Cáucaso de gran actividad sísmica, que se extiende entre el mar Negro y el Caspio. Estacordillera abarca dos grandes cadenas de montañas con importantes plegamientos, divididas en toda su extensión por tierras bajas; la zona norte del Gran Cáucasoconstituye la frontera meridional de Rusia. Este sistema montañoso es bastante complejo desde el punto de vista geológico; está constituido por rocas calizas y cristalinascon a...
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Rusia - geografía.
La frontera meridional de la Rusia europea comprende la joven cordillera del Cáucaso de gran actividad sísmica, que se extiende entre el mar Negro y el Caspio. Estacordillera abarca dos grandes cadenas de montañas con importantes plegamientos, divididas en toda su extensión por tierras bajas; la zona norte del Gran Cáucasoconstituye la frontera meridional de Rusia. Este sistema montañoso es bastante complejo desde el punto de vista geológico; está constituido por rocas calizas y cristalinascon a...
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China - geografía.
permiten la ubicación de puertos naturales. Hacia el sur de las colinas de Nan Ling está la depresión del Xi Jiang, una zona montañosa de suelos poco fértiles; sin embargo,los numerosos arroyos de la región están bordeados por valles aluviales planos y fértiles. La amplia planicie deltaica del Zhu Jiang (río Perla) se conoce comúnmente comodelta de Cantón. 2.1. 6 La meseta Tibetana En el extremo suroeste de China está la alta meseta del Tíbet, enmarcada por montañas; es la meseta más elevada de...
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Asia - Geography.
Borneo, the world’s third largest island after Greenland and New Guinea. To the southeast is the Timor Sea separating the Asian island of Timor from the Australiancontinent. The Indian subcontinent is flanked by the Bay of Bengal on the east and the Arabian Sea on the west. The island of Sri Lanka and the much smaller Maldives andNicobar Islands trail away to the south. The Arabian Sea’s Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Black Sea form an arc along the western rim of Asia...
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Asia - History.
Borneo, the world’s third largest island after Greenland and New Guinea. To the southeast is the Timor Sea separating the Asian island of Timor from the Australiancontinent. The Indian subcontinent is flanked by the Bay of Bengal on the east and the Arabian Sea on the west. The island of Sri Lanka and the much smaller Maldives andNicobar Islands trail away to the south. The Arabian Sea’s Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Black Sea form an arc along the western rim of Asia...
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Asia - geography.
the Himalayas, the world’s highest mountain system. The Pacific Ocean plate drifted westward, scraping along the Eurasian plate and slipping under its coastal edge. This created the islands of Japan, Taiwan, the Kurils, theRyūky ūs, and the Philippines. Southeast Asia lies at the intersection of the Eurasian, Pacific Ocean, and Indian Ocean plates. Over time the contact between these platescreated the mountain ranges of mainland Southeast Asia. The continued slow movement of the plates causes fr...
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Asia - history.
the Himalayas, the world’s highest mountain system. The Pacific Ocean plate drifted westward, scraping along the Eurasian plate and slipping under its coastal edge. This created the islands of Japan, Taiwan, the Kurils, theRyūky ūs, and the Philippines. Southeast Asia lies at the intersection of the Eurasian, Pacific Ocean, and Indian Ocean plates. Over time the contact between these platescreated the mountain ranges of mainland Southeast Asia. The continued slow movement of the plates causes fr...
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Asia - geografía.
Al norte del núcleo montañoso central existen varias depresiones estructurales importantes. Más al norte, entre el Tien Shan y los montes Altái, se halla la cuenca deDzungaria, perteneciente a China. Al sur, entre el Tien Shan y las cordilleras Karakorum y Kunlun, se extiende la vasta cuenca de Tarim, en la que se encuentra uno de losdesiertos más grandes de la latitud media, el Takla Makan. Finalmente, rodeada por el Kunlun y el Altun, está la profunda cuenca Qaidam (Tsaidam). Los tipos de suel...
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Afghanistan - country.
D Climate Most of Afghanistan has a subarctic mountain climate with dry and cold winters, except for the lowlands, which have arid and semiarid climates. In the mountains and afew of the valleys bordering Pakistan, a fringe effect of the Indian monsoon, coming usually from the southeast, brings moist maritime tropical air in summer.Afghanistan has clearly defined seasons: Summers are hot and winters can be bitterly cold. Summer temperatures as high as 49°C (120°F) have been recorded in thenorth...