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there are quite a few cities in russia of decent size that are north of the 61st parallel north, such as, Norilsk (175,365 pop, 69°20′N) Murmansk (299,148 pop, 68°58′N) Arkhangelsk (348,783 pop, 64°32′N) Yakutsk (269,601 pop, 62°02′N). I know it technically doesn't count but St. Petersburg is at 59°57′N with a population of 4,879,566. Also there is Anchorage at 61°13′N with a population of 300,950. And Fairbanks at 64°32′N with a population of 32,070 doesn't really fit your definition of a city. And there is also the capital of Iceland, Reykjavik at 64°08′N with a population of 121,841. Also as a side note a lot of those Russian cities were much larger during the soviet era so they look a lot bigger too, for example Arkhangelsk back in 1989 had a population of 415,921 and Murmansk back in 1989 had a population of 468,039!! (lost a quarter of its population)
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With climate change, world population explosion, South-North migration, and increased technology (underground Streets in Canadian cities) I believe there will be more and more big cities north of 55° Lat.
^^Trondheim at 63°26' (183k), Bergen 60°38' (272k), Tampere 61°29' (215k), Turku 60°39' (177k), Helsinki 60°10' (725k), Lahti 60°59' (101k), Jyvaskyla 62°14' and Petrozavodsk 61°47' (263k) are all large cities and above 60°.
^^Trondheim at 63°26' (183k), Bergen 60°38' (272k), Tampere 61°29' (215k), Turku 60°39' (177k), Helsinki 60°10' (725k), Lahti 60°59' (101k), Jyvaskyla 62°14' and Petrozavodsk 61°47' (263k) are all large cities and above 60°.
Yes, but all those cities are climatically rather benign for the latitude (maybe not Petrozavodsk), and not even in the same league as for example Norilsk or others being suggested here.
Bergen is essentially a colder version of here. No wonder it's as large as it is. Compare to northern Canada where the largest city is Whitehorse with 23,000 people or thereabouts. Northern Canada has 107,265 people and that's about the same as my parliamentary constituency.
Other not so well known cities of considerable size in Russia are Surgut (61°15′N 306,675 *still growing) Nizhnevartovsk (60°57′N 251,694 *still growing) Novy Urengoy (66°05′N 104,107 *one of the few fast growing arctic cities, crossed the 100k mark in 2010) Severodvinsk (64°34′N 192,353 *shrinking). I couldn't find any other cities larger than 100k that haven't been mentioned.
Spent the first half of my life so far at 53' (Dublin), and second half at 38'54 Washington DC. More sun and less wind, but not hot air, in DC. Same as Lisbon, Ibiza, Dushanbe, and Pyongyang.
Yes, but all those cities are climatically rather benign for the latitude (maybe not Petrozavodsk), and not even in the same league as for example Norilsk or others being suggested here.
That's true but they are still technically above the 60° parallel even though their climate is quite mild for their latitude. Tromso also deserves a mention as it sits almost at the the 70th parallel, despite its location the city holds about 70k inhabitants and is still on the rise
I live at latitude 33N, which is south of everywhere in Europe. I am about 70 km south of downtown Los Angeles. The 33rd parallel passes close to two other large metro areas in the southern US, Phoenix and Dallas/Ft Worth. It passes near a few other smaller southern cities like Charleston, SC and Macon, GA. It crosses the Atlantic to Casablanca, Morrocco and Tripoli, Libya. It continues east close to Damascus and Baghdad, through the middle of Iran and Afghanistan to Northern Pakistan, Tibet and central China. 33N passes near Fukuoka, Japan and crosses the Pacific to the coast of southern California.
Latitude 33 South is also familiar to me. I lived in Viña del Mar, Chile for a year when I attended high school there in 1971. Santiago, Chile is also at Latitude 33, southeast of Viña del Mar. Latitude 33 S passes Rosario, Argentina and touches the southernmost point of Brazil and crosses the Atlantic to pass just north of Capetown and Port Elizabeth, South Africa. 33 South hits the west coast of Australia about 100 km north of Perth and crosses the southern part of the continent without passing near any large city. It passes near Newcastle on the Pacific coast of Australia and crosses the Pacific without touching any speck of land until arriving back on the coast of central Chile near Viña del Mar.
The variety of climate zones that latitude 33 touches is extreme, almost anything you can imagine other than true tropical jungle. Frigid cold in Tibet and the Himalayas to extreme desert heat in Baghdad and Phoenix. Very dry and mild like coastal Southern California, Casablanca, Capetown, Central Chile and Western Australia. Very wet and very humid like Southern Brazil, southern Japan and coastal South Carolina.
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Same as Lisbon, Ibiza, Dushanbe, and Pyongyang.
