Most of the coldest places on Earth aren’t inhabited or only have a relatively small number of people. But Yakutsk in Siberia, Russia, lays claim to being the coldest large city in the world. It lies just 280 miles south of the Arctic Circle, home to over 300,000 hardy souls. The whole city was built on permafrost.
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