, wool, hides,
fluorspar, other nonferrous metals

Exports - partners:
China 48.1%, US 14.2%, Canada 11.6%, UK 8.3%, South Korea 6.2%
(2005)

Imports:
$1.011 billion c.i.f. (2004 est.)

Imports - commodities:
machinery and equipment, fuel, cars, food products, industrial
consumer goods, chemicals, building materials, sugar, tea

Imports - partners:
Russia 34.5%, China 27.4%, Japan 7.1%, South Korea 5.3% (2005)

Debt - external:
$1.36 billion (2004)

Economic aid - recipient:
$215 million (2003)

Currency (code):
togrog/tugrik (MNT)

Currency code:
MNT

Exchange rates:
togrogs/tugriks per US dollar - 1,187.17 (2005), 1,185.3 (2004),
1,146.5 (2003), 1,110.3 (2002)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Mongolia

Telephones - main lines in use:
156,000 (2005)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
557,200 (2005)

Telephone system:
general assessment: network is improving with international direct
dialing available in many areas
domestic: very low density of about 5.5 main lines per 100 persons;
two wireless providers cover all but two provinces
international: country code - 976; satellite earth station - 1
Intersputnik (Indian Ocean Region)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 7, FM 62, shortwave 3 (2004)

Radios:
155,900 (1999)

Television broadcast stations:
52 (plus 21 provincial repeaters and many low power repeaters)
(2004)

Televisions:
168,800 (1999)

Internet country code:
.mn

Internet hosts:
272 (2006)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
5 (2001)

Internet users:
268,300 (2005)

Transportation Mongolia

Airports:
44 (2006)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 12
over 3,047 m: 1
2,438 to 3,047 m: 10
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 (2006)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 32
over 3,047 m: 2
2,438 to 3,047 m: 3
1,524 to 2,437 m: 24
914 to 1,523 m: 2
under 914 m: 1 (2006)

Heliports:
2 (2006)

Railways:
total: 1,810 km
broad gauge: 1,810 km 1.524-m gauge (2005)

Roadways:
total: 49,250 km
paved: 1,724 km
unpaved: 47,526 km (2002)

Waterways:
580 km
note: only waterway in operation is Lake Hovsgol (135 km); Selenge
River (270 km) and Orhon River (175 km) are navigable but carry
little traffic; lakes and rivers freeze in winter, are open from May
to September (2004)

Merchant marine:
total: 61 ships (1000 GRT or over) 319,053 GRT/479,190 DWT