I read the other day that it's the most sparsely populated independent country in the world, and I'm just curious why that is.
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Why does China have 1.5ish billion people but mongolia only has 2 million?
How did the Mongol Empire transitionned from being the biggest empire ever to be a small country of 3 million inhabitants.
How the did Mongols go for having one of the worlds largest empires to having just the developing country Mongolia is today?
How did Mongolia go from a powerful, huge spanning empire to a third world country in the modern era?
Mongolia today seems to be a sparsely populated country: how was Genghis Khan able to field enough warriors for his extremely large empire?