Mongolia rural depopulation

Question 1

characteristics

Answer 1

• heavy reliance on agricultural activities
  -traditional housing in the form of ‘gers’
  -travel by horseback is common

Question 2

government programs set up to improve the lives of the nomadic herders

Answer 2

-livestock insurance to protect herders from losses incurred in extreme winters that occur every few years
-expansion of cell-phone coverage throughout the countryside
-expansion of rural eduction

Question 3

urbanisation of poverty

Answer 3

• many people moving to the city but can’t afford housing so they live on the outskirts of the city in poor conditions

Question 4

mongolia population

Answer 4

1/3 are nomadic herders and 40% live below the poverty line

Question 5

mongolia capital city

Answer 5

Ulaanbaatar