Outer Mongolia, says Sochurek, is basically two nations. One is the timeless meadowlands of Central Asia where nomads pasture their flocks and herds just as they did centuries ago under the rule ...

Outer Mongolia, a lonely, landlocked area twice the size of Texas, is a place that the rest of the world refuses to regard as a nation and Soviet Russia refuses to treat as an equal. But last week ...

Mongolia, once known as Outer Mongolia, was part of China until 1921, when it achieved independence with the help of the Soviet Union. Inner Mongolia remained part of China.

The Qing dynasty divided Mongolia into two portions, Inner Mongolia and Outer Mongolia. The Manchus encouraged Chinese encroachment and colonization of Mongolian lands, beginning with Inner Mongolia.

As a boy, Philip Currie dreamed of digging for dinosaur fossils in the vast deserts of Outer Mongolia. Currie was inspired by the books of Roy Chapman Andrews, who led the American Museum of Natural ...

Pope Francis will make an Aug. 31-Sept. 4 trip to Mongolia, one of the most far-flung places he has ever visited and which has only about 1,300 Catholics but is strategically significant for the ...

Pope Francis is known for traveling to the peripheries of the world to visit places no pope has gone before. And with this historic trip, the Pope said that he was coming to visit Mongolia’s ...

Benjamin Lourie’s career has made twists and turns, taking him to outer Mongolia and back to Moscow, where he opened a Tex-Mex restaurant near Red Square—two weeks before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ...

When I tell Aspen friends that I was in Mongolia and China this summer, they invariably ask first about Mongolia, and usually picture me on horseback riding for days across ...