One of the great races of man, including the greater part of the inhabitants of China, Japan, and the interior of Asia, with branches in Northern Europe and other parts of the world. By some American Indians are considered a branch of the Mongols. In a more restricted sense, the inhabitants of Mongolia and adjacent countries, including the Burats and the Kalmuks.

The Mongolian-speaking nomadic tribes that ruled most of western and eastern Asia in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the Mongols established control in modern-day Russia and continued to expand whenever a strong ruler acquired leadership. The conversion of many of their subjects to Islam diminished the authority of the Buddhist Mongols and,despite some attempts by their leader Tamerlane to re-establish control in the late fourteenth century, the Mongolian Empire turned its attention eastward and away from Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the Middle East.

Generic term for a number of Inner Asian tribes that were united by Genghis Khan in 1206.

The Mongols MC is a motorcycle club located in the United States and Mexico that was formed in the San Fernando Valley of California in the 1970s Organized Crime in California Annual Report the California Legislature 2004. The club claims chapters in California, where law enforcement officials estimate there are 200 to 350 members, Nevada, Oklahoma, Colorado, Arizona, and Montana.