Mongolian People's Republic

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Mongolian People's Republic
People’s Republic
Capital	Ulaanbaatar
Languages	Mongolian, Russian
Population	2,400,000

The Mongolian People’s Republic is a Soviet satellite state occupying the Eurasian steppe between the Soviet Union and China, sparsely populated and governed under a socialist framework imposed following the 1924 revolution. The party administers the cities and the formal economy; nomadic herding – the basis of Mongolian life for centuries – has resisted full collectivisation and continues across most of the country. Horseback remains the most practical means of transport outside urban areas.

Mongolia occupies a buffer position in the Sino-Soviet rivalry, valued by the Soviet Union for its geographic separation from China and not actively contested by Beijing, which has more pressing territorial concerns in Manchuria and Taiwan. The country is poor and receives modest Soviet investment in Ulaanbaatar, producing a small industrial district and a state university within an otherwise pastoral economy.