Coldest Inhabited Place on Earth: Oymyakon, Russia

Oymyakon, a village in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) in eastern Siberia, holds the record for the coldest permanently inhabited settlement. Temperatures have reached −67.7 °C (−89.9 °F); January averages ~−50 °C (−58 °F). It lies north of the Arctic Circle on the Indigirka River.