EARTH’S COLDEST POPULATION

A remote village in eastern Siberia called Oymyakon is the coldest permanently inhabited place on Earth. The lowest recorded temperature in the village is -67.7 degrees Celsius.

The region is an area of permafrost, which means that the ground is at a constant zero degrees Celsius. This also means that not much can grow on the frozen ground, so the diet of Oymyakon residents consists mainly of meat and fish. Due to freezing temperatures, indoor plumbing is nonexistent in Oymyakon, and all bodily waste is expelled in chilly outhouses. Oymyakon takes its name from the Russian for ‘water that doesn’t freeze’.