{"id":4681,"date":"2023-01-17T12:46:58","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T07:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4681"},"modified":"2025-03-27T01:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T20:18:08","slug":"where-is-yakutsk-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/where-is-yakutsk-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is Yakutsk City?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Yakutsk City<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Yakutsk city is <strong>located 5,000 km (3,100 miles) east of Moscow on the permafrost of the Russian Far East.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Yakutsk is the <strong>capital city of the Sakha Republic, Russia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The city is about <strong>450 km to the south of the Arctic Circle.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The temperature of this city\u00a0 often drops below minus 40.<\/li>\n<li>While Yakutsk <strong>holds the record as the world&#8217;s coldest city<\/strong>, it is also the one with the greatest variation in temperature.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What is permafrost?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Permafrost is <strong>any ground that remains completely frozen\u201432\u00b0F (0\u00b0C) or colder\u2014for at least two years straight.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Permafrost is <strong>made of a combination of soil, rocks and sand that are held together by ice.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The soil and ice in permafrost stay frozen all year long.<\/li>\n<li>Permafrost c<strong>an be found on land and below the ocean floor.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>These permanently frozen grounds are most <strong>common in regions with high mountains and in Earth\u2019s higher latitudes<\/strong>\u2014near the North and South Poles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0Which is the world\u2019s coldest city?<\/h3>\n<p>Yakutsk city is located on the Russian Far East holds the record as the world&#8217;s coldest city.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/mad-mad-world\/dress-like-a-cabbage-yakutsk-worlds-coldest-city\/articleshow\/97016851.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Dress like a cabbage&#8217;: Surviving the world&#8217;s coldest city<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yakutsk city is located 5,000 km on the  the Russian Far East and is world&#8217;s coldest city<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}