Mongolia, as the country having a great historical and cultural heritage, attracts more attention of foreign tourists by its interesting facts and records.
It is archeologically evidenced that the prehistoric hunters and nomads of the Stone Age lived across the territory of modern Mongolia. Mongolians are the successors of the Huns, who established the first ever statehood in the World history. At the beginning of the XIII century, the Great Chinggis Khaan, the founder of the Mongol Empire captured whole Central Asia, and then established the biggest power in the history of humanity.
There are a lot of such kinds of the most interesting facts and figures about Mongolia. For example, the gigantic complex “Chinggis Khaan on the horseback” was erected not far from the capital Ulaanbaatar. It is considered the highest mounted monument in the World. There also is placed the biggest in the world boots inside the complex. This traditional boots with turned-up toes are 9 meter in height, 6 meter in length and 2 meter in width. It is said that the boots are made of 225 pieces of cattle’s hide.
Mongolia is only home to the World last wild horse-takhi and Mazaalai or Gobi bear, one of the rarest biological species. The dinosaur petrified eggs were found for the first time in the 1920s from Mongolian Gobi desert. The 70 million year old Tarbosaurus Bataar skeleton also was unearthed from Mongolian Gobi. This archeological and unique find was on the auction block in New York City a year ago. As a result of enormous efforts and prompt actions of paleontologists and government authorities of two countries Bataar recently returned to its home country. Mongolians has already started to create the gigantic Maitreya complex containing ancient Buddha image and modern-day development achievement. Just only the Buddha statue of the complex is 54-meter high. 108-meter high white marble stupa never seen in the world is to be loomed up behind the statue
Mongolia leads in the world by the land per capita. The second biggest fresh water lake in Asia is located in Mongolia. In Mongolia, sky is clear in 257 days of year. Mongolian Gobi desert is ranked 5th in the world. Mongolia is one of the highest countries in the World. Ulaanbaatar is the coldest capital in the world. Also an average index of Mongolians’ intelligence quotient was rated as the fifth according to comparative studies conducted among the 113 countries of the World.