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Nomads No More: Why Mongolian Herders Are Moving to the City
Patrick Kingsley | The Guardian
“Look down on Ulaanbaatar from the hills at its edge, and you will see a central hotchpotch of new skyscrapers and crumbling Soviet tower blocks surrounded by an unplanned periphery of white yurts, or, as they are known in Mongolia, gers. Thousands and thousands of gers.
These are the homes of around 600,000 former herders who—like Altansukh—have migrated to the Mongolian capital in the past three
