Mongolia is one of the coldest counties you could possibly visit, and its capital (Ulaanbaatar) is the coldest capital city in the world! Temperatures reach -35C during January and February. If you leave your clothes to dry outside they’ll quickly become frozen! As it’s so cold, it’s very impressive that the Mongolians manage to survive in these temperatures. So just how do they do it?
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Their clothes – everyone wraps up warm during the winter season. People spend a long time putting on warm clothes before they leave their house. Here you can see what the average Mongolian man would wear on a cold day:
Thermal underclothes
A jumper, many t-shirts and a warm pair of trousers
Hat, gloves and some very warm boots
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Their accommodation – People who own a house make sure that it has a lot of heating. All the windows and doors have a lot of insulation put around them, to stop the cold air outside getting in.
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Their accommodation – People who own a house make sure that it has a lot of heating. All the windows and doors have a lot of insulation put around them, to stop the cold air outside getting in.
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Those who live in a gir (Mongolian tent) use coal fires to keep their gir warm. Because girs are well designed for Mongolia’s cold weather, it only takes thirty minutes from when the gir’s stove is lit for the temperature inside to rise from freezing to a nice, warm +20C. However, some people are not lucky enough to live in a house or a gir.asa
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Ulaanbaatar has many street children, who live on the streets begging for money. The only way they can keep warm in the winter is to live underground. The children climb down manholes and sleep next to the warm heating pipes that run underneath the city. They keep warm, but it’s dirty – they have a very difficult life.
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