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Also It seems that you are more interested in knowing the population of people living, so since large parts of russia fit your threshold, and instead of trying to find every city and possibly missing some, as well as the thousands of tiny towns and villages, maybe it would be best to count an entire federal subject, at least those that you feel comfortably that the entire subject fits your threshold.
Also It seems that you are more interested in knowing the population of people living, so since large parts of russia fit your threshold, and instead of trying to find every city and possibly missing some, as well as the thousands of tiny towns and villages, maybe it would be best to count an entire federal subject, at least those that you feel comfortably that the entire subject fits your threshold.
That's what I usually do at the end: for example, I once approximated the minimum number of people who live in summer average highs below 26.6 °C, not by summing city by city, but summing larger parts. This time I wanted to see the 100 largest cities, but when I have some time I'll add those larger parts to actually see how many people live in such cold winter climates.
I'm not sure if Sverdlovsk Oblast' fits the criteria, and the western part of Chelyabinsk Oblast' looks warmer during the winter (of course, the more west you go, the warmer it becomes, so it makes sense), but the other ones do.
72,000,000 live just in the 100 largest cities, I think the whole population may even surpass 80,000,000
Out of the cities you listed, I'd probably choose to live in karamay because of the warmth, they all look horrible though :/
Yes, -18 °C as average lows feels horrible, but the winter urban visual impression looks really nice, plus you definitely get 4 seasons at the lower latitudes (like Winnipeg, Grand Forks, Novosibirsk and Harbin).
These places get a wide range of temperatures, usually peaking from -32 °C in the winter to +32 °C in the summer, so, it feels more "open" (it's a concept in my mind, I don't know if you share it) than places like London, Edinburgh, Vancouver, Sydney, Cape Town, Buenos Aires, and all those places where temperature ranges are very narrow, which feel more "closed" to me. I prefer Cfb or Cfc climates (London, Wellington, Reykjavik, Ushuaia...) because they rarely get uncomfortable temperatures for me, but I wouldn't say those climates are "exciting" or "4 seasons", like the one I listed.
Karamay or Kelamayi is a prefecture-level city in the north of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. The name of the city comes from the Uyghur language, and means "black oil", referring to the oil fields near the city.
Karamay or Kelamayi is a prefecture-level city in the north of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. The name of the city comes from the Uyghur language, and means "black oil", referring to the oil fields near the city.
I'm not moving there!
The second hottest summers belong to Tongliao, if I didn't miss something.
I've looked up at the January average lows from 2010 to now and it looks like North American cities have been warmer than the 30 years average, up to 2 degrees Celsius. The cities with more than 100,000 and average lows lower than -20 °C in Canada are (not counting the metro areas):
Anyways, many of the top cities have terrible pollution problems. The issue about a huge city getting well-below-freezing temps is that human activity and coal-powered heating generate a lot of air pollutants, and on top of that the air molecules don't have as much kinetic energy to disperse these aerosols quickly, so they just sit there and accumulate.
Ultimately I do want to move to a cold-weather city (like Duluth or Winnipeg or Grand Forks or Fargo), but living in a huge ass 10 million-person metro area like Harbin would be a pain in the ass, plus the UHI would probably prevent extreme cold like -40C which is also a big negative.
Our record low of -48C was recorded about 4 km away from downtown
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