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Religions: Buddhist Lamaist (50%), Shamanist and Christian (6%), Muslim (4%), none (40%)  Languages: Khaikha Mongol (90%), Turkic, Russian   Population Growth Rate: 1.489% (80th compared to the rest of the world)   Birth Rate: 20.93 births/ 1,000 population (85th compared to the rest of the world) __ **Naadam Ceremony** __ Naadam is the main festival in Mongolia and it contains 3 different sports archery, wrestling, and horse racing. This is usually a 3 day ceremony that attracts a great amount of people, especially appeals to the older Mongolians. media type="custom" key="11718454" width="418" height="418" __** Music **__ Mongolian music has a deep influence that comes from their great variety of nature as well as an influence from Tibetan Buddhism. The urtyn duu, or long song, very popular along with khoomei, or throat-singing. Another very popular part of Mongolian culture is the tsam, which is a dance that is meant to keep away evil spirits. (Wikipedia, 2011) __**Schools**__  The school system in Mongolia has gone through many changes over the past few years, with one of the main changes being that children go through an eleven year program versus the ten year program they had before. Another recent change has been for the starting age of school to six years old. A very surprising statistic is the literacy rate which is around 98%, and this is so surprising because of the fact that Mongolia is one of the poorest countries in Asia. (Wikipedia, 2011) ** References ** Education in Mongolia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (n.d.). //Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia //. Retrieved December 10, 2011, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_

time, t., techno., hip-hop., & bands, a. b. (n.d.). Mongolia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. //Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia //. Retrieved December 7, 2011, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolia#