Officially name: Mongolia
Capital: Ulan Bator
Largest city: Ulan Bator
Official language: Mongolian
Government: Parliamentary republic
There are over 4,000 rivers in Mongolia, known as Gols in Mongolian. Most of the country's 20 or so significant waterways are in the Northern Arctic Basin in Central and Northern Mongolia, which has the highest annual precipitation.
In 1989 when communism was starting to fall elsewhere, many Mongolian weren't really ready for the change.