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The drivers of land use\/cover change (LUCC), such as population dynamics and climate change, are increasingly important to local sustainability studies. They can only be properly analyzed at small scales that capture the socio-economic conditions. Several studies have been carried out to examine the pattern of LUCC in Mongolia, but they have been focused on changes in single land types at a local scale. Although some of them were carried out at the national scale, the data interval is more than 10 years. A small-scale and year-by-year dataset of LUCC in Mongolia is thus needed for comprehensive analyses. We obtained year-by-year land use\/cover changes in Mongolia from 1990 to 2021 using Landsat TM\/OLI data. First, we established a random forest (RF) model. Then, in order to improve the classification accuracy of the misclassification of cropland, grassland, and built and barren areas, the classification and regression trees model (CART) was introduced for post-processing. The results show that 17.6% of the land surface has changed at least once among the six land categories from 1990 to 2021. While the area of barren land has significantly increased, the grassland and forest areas have exhibited a decreasing trend in the past 32 years. The other land types do not show promising changes. To determine the driving factors of LUCC, we applied an RF feature importance ranking to environmental factors, physical factors, socioeconomic factors, and accessibility factors. The mean annual precipitation (MAP), evapotranspiration (ET), mean annual air temperature (MAAT), DEM, GDP, and distance to railway are the main driving factors that have determined the distribution and changes in land types. Interestingly, unlike the global anti-V-shaped pattern, we found that the land use\/cover changes show an N-shaped trend in Mongolia. These characteristics of land use\/cover change in Mongolia are primarily due to the agricultural policies and rapid urbanization. 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