Talk:Geography of Mongolia

This map is wrong:


At least Mongolia's northern border is marked too far south. It's obvious if you look for the location of the Selenge river or Hövsgöl nuur (on this map a big plateau that is divided by the border to Russia).

On another note, it has Russian and Chinese, but not Mongolian designations.Yaan 14:44, 27 February 2007 (UTC)


 * I will create an english language version of this map, as soon as we have a final decision on Romanization of Mongolian. --Latebird 15:09, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Environmental concerns
The section gives the impression that those environmental concerns are a thing of the past, but in fact air pollution and deforestation seem to have only become worse since the 1990s. Other concers are unregulated/illegal hunting and, apparently, the cedar nut (samar, sp?) harvesting. Mining, both by big firms or by ninjas, does not really seem to be good for the environment either - I seem to remember one particularly notorious case in Khongor sum / ODarkhan-Uul aimag (?) from last summer. Last not least there is potential overgrazing excarbated by larger numbers of lifestock, a higher share of goats, and a greater concentration of herders around the cities. Some of these problems have been publicly adressed (bans on exporting samar, more regulations on marmot hunting, ban on driving on the ice of Khövsgöl nuur), but the impact remains to be seen. Would be nice if someone knowledgeable could put this into the article.Yaan (talk) 18:48, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 29 January 2017
In the climate overview section, someone made an edit on 04:38, 15 May 2016 that changed the winter tempurature extremes to 20C and 100C, which is clearly wrong. The previous version to this edit had the correct temperatures of -20C and -40C. This should be corrected as follows.

Average temperatures over most of the country are below freezing from November through March and are about freezing in April and October. January and February averages of −20 °C (−4 °F) are common, with winter nights of −40 °C (−40 °F) occurring most years.

Thank you 98.166.152.202 (talk) 16:32, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made.  Eve rgr een Fir  (talk) 20:51, 29 January 2017 (UTC)