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Mongolia is far weirder, interesting, and spectacular than you know! This is a country where horses outnumber people. And a place where nearly a third of its people still roam around as nomads! It’s home to shifting desert sand dunes that literally sing and the geographic threat that forced China to build the Great Wall.
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Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
00:24 - The Most Sparsely Populated Country on Earth
01:18 - The World's Coldest Capital City
02:17 - The "Land of the Blue Sky"
03:12 - The Singing Sand Dunes
04:10 - A Global Capital for Dinosaur Fossils
05:37 - The Largest Contiguous Land Empire
06:37 - The World's Oldest National Park
07:35 - The Capital City That Used to Move
08:30 - The Catalyst for the Great Wall
09:30 - The Ultimate Geopolitical Buffer
10:27 - More Horses Than People
11:21 - The Enduring Nomadic Lifestyle
12:15 - Winter Street Ice Cream
13:12 - The Sprawling "Ger Districts"
14:05 - The Golden Eagle Hunters
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