Previous year MCQs

UPPSC 1999 GS-I World Geography
Question

The coldest place on the earth is:

Answer & Solution

Answer: (Detailed Solution Below)

Option D: Verkhoyansk

Detailed Solution:

The correct answer is “Verkhoyansk”.
Verkhoyansk, located in Siberia, Russia, is one of the coldest inhabited places on the planet.

Vostok Station, the Russian research station in Antarctica holds the record for the coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth.

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