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- Government
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- Long-form name: Mongolian People's Republic; abbreviated MPR.
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- Type: Communist state.
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- Capital: Ulaanbaatar.
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- Administrative divisions: 18 provinces (aymguud, singular--aymag)
- and 3 municipalities* (hotuud, singular--hot); Arhangay,
- Bayanhongor, Bayan-Olgiy, Bulgan, Darhan*, Dornod, Dornogovi,
- Dundgovi, Dzavhan, Erdenet*, Govi-Altay, Hentiy, Hovd, Hovsgol,
- Omnogovi, Ovorhangay, Selenge, Suhbaatar, Tov, Ulaanbaatar*, Uvs.
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- Independence: 13 March 1921 (from China; formerly Outer
- Mongolia).
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- Constitution: 6 July 1960.
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- Legal system: blend of Russian, Chinese, and Turkish systems
- of law; no constitutional provision for judicial review
- of legislative acts; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction.
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- National holiday: People's Revolution Day, 11 July (1921).
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- Executive branch: chairman and deputy chairman of the Presidium
- of the People's Great Hural, Presidium of the People's Great
- Hural, chairman of the Council of Ministers, Council of
- Ministers (cabinet).
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- Legislative branch: unicameral People's Great Hural.
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- Judicial branch: Supreme Court.
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- Leaders:
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- Chief of State--Chairman of the Presidium of the People's Great
- Hural Punsalmaagiyn OCHIRBAT (since 21 March 1990);
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- Head of Government--Chairman of the Council of Ministers
- Sharabyn GUNGAADORJ (since 21 March 1990);
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- Political parties and leaders: only party--Mongolian People's
- Revolutionary Party (MPRP), Gombojabin Ochirbat, General
- Secretary.
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- Suffrage: universal at age 18.
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- Elections:
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- President--last held 21 March 1990 (next to be held July 1991);
- results--Punsalmaagiyn Ochirbat elected by the People's Great Hural;
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- People's Great Hural--last held on 22 June 1986 (next to be held
- June 1990); results--MPRP was the only party; seats--(370 total)
- MPRP 370.
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- Communists: MPRP membership 88,150 (1986 est.).
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- Member of: CEMA, ESCAP, FAO, IAEA, IBEC, ILO, IPU, ITU,
- UN, UNESCO, UPU, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO.
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- Diplomatic representation: Ambassador Gendengiin NYAMDOO;
- US--Ambassador Richard L. WILLIAMS.
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- Flag: three equal, vertical bands of red (hoist side), blue,
- and red; centered on the hoist-side red band in yellow is
- a five-pointed star above the national emblem (soyombo--a
- columnar arrangement of abstract and geometric representations
- for fire, sun, moon, earth, water, and the yin-yang symbol).
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