What is the northernmost city in the world?
Norilsk is the world's northernmost city with more than 100,000 inhabitants and the second-largest city (after Murmansk) inside the Arctic Circle. The city is situated in Russia. The average monthly temperatures in Norilsk range from -16.6°F (-27°C) to 57.2°F (14°C), but it once hit -63.6°F (-53.1°C). The city is covered with snow for about 270 days a year, and the inhabitants must deal with snowstorms one day out of every three.
It's not just one of the coldest cities of the world — it's also one of the filthiest. Nickel ore smelting has transformed the landscape into one of the ten most polluted places on Earth.
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Sergey Boev
Norilsk was built during Stalin era in Soviet Union by slave labour in Gulag. There are a huge deposits of nickel ore in that area and Stalin’s NKVD (People’s Commissariat of Internal Affaires) sent there hundreds of thousands political prisoners to build the city and to work in nickel mines. Most of them died of forced labour, cold and starvation.
Richard G. Gomsrud
The definition of a city as having a population of more than 100,000 that magically appeared in the explanation should have been in the question as I couldn't find a specific population for a city, just that it was bigger than a town, another undefined term population wise. Poor question
jjohnson
The northernmost city in the world is Longyearbyen on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.
michael d engels
Define "city" first, then ask the question...
LibraryLady
jjohnson, I agree with you, since the question was not clearly defined. Longyearbyen is considered a settlement, which could be a city.
Chandran David
What’s the definition for a “ city “ ?
Shelley Durocher
Fred Zeb Fudpucker, Nunavut is not a city. It is one of three Canadian Territories. It's capital city is Iqaluit.
wok
Most Northern BIG city was not asked. Another poor accepted question. Only thing that would have made it better would be a picture of ????s.
TSH
Fred Zeb Fudpucker, By definition, 62 people does not make a city. Typically a city must have more than 100,000 permanent inhabitants.
Fred Zeb Fudpucker
edusido, Yeah, it is in "North" Argentina, oh wait, Terra Del Fuego is in South Argentina, isn't it?
Fred Zeb Fudpucker
The northernmost inhabited city in the world is Nunavut, Canada. It's 800 km from the North Pole and has around 62 people living in it. It also happens to be one of the coldest places in the world.
Hans Riebeek
What is a city ?