Sub-zero places on Earth where humans live

Jan27,2024

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Located almost 800 miles from the South Pole in the dead center of the East Antarctic Plateau, Vostok Station is home to around 25 to 30 people during the continent's summer months.

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Vostok Station, Antarctica

Founded as a fort in 1638, this town became a regional hub for cattle breeding and tin and gold mining. Verkhoyansk was used to house political exiles between the 1860s and early 20th century

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Verkhoyansk, Russia

The town was officially tied for the Guinness World Record for the lowest temperature in an inhabited place in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Oymyakon, Russia

Yakutsk is a Russian port city with average lows that drop below freezing by October and don't climb back up until May

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Yakutsk, Russia

The title of coldest city in Canada belongs to Snag, a village in the Yukon Territory. 

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Snag, Canada

Utqiaġvik—known prior to 2016 as Barrow—is the northernmost city in the U.S., located 1,300 miles south of the North Pole and 320 miles north of the Arctic Circle. 

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Utqiagvik, Alaska

Although International Falls, Minnesota, is only half as cold as Oymyakon or Verkhoyansk, it is one of the coldest cities in the contiguous U.S.

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International Falls, Minnesota

Fraser sits at 8,574 feet in Colorado's Rocky Mountains and is home to an estimated 1,400 people

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Fraser, Colorado

The Norwegian village of Hell is notorious for the ironic contrast between its fiery name and its sub-arctic temperatures. 

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Hell, Norway