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===Coldest and hottest inhabited places on Earth=== {| class="wikitable" | Hottest inhabited place || [[Dallol, Ethiopia]] (Amharic: ዳሎል), whose annual mean temperature was recorded from 1960 to 1966 as {{convert|34.4|C}}.<ref>p. 9, ''Weather Experiments'', Muriel Mandell and Dave Garbot, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., 2006, {{ISBN|1-4027-2157-9}}.</ref> The average daily maximum temperature during the same period was {{convert|41.1|C}}.<ref>Average of table on p. 26, ''Extreme Weather: A Guide & Record Book'', Christopher C. Burt and Mark Stroud, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, {{ISBN|0-393-33015-X}}.</ref> |- | rowspan=2|Coldest inhabited place ||[[Oymyakon]] (Russian: Оймяко́н), a rural locality (selo) in Oymyakonsky District of the [[Sakha Republic]], the Russian Federation, has the coldest monthly mean, with {{convert|-45.7|C|F|abbr=}} the average temperature in January, the coldest month. [[Eureka, Nunavut|Eureka]], Nunavut, Canada has the lowest annual mean temperature at {{convert|-19.7|C}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://climate.weatheroffice.gc.ca/climate_normals/results_e.html?stnID=1750&lang=e&dCode=1&StationName=EUREKA&SearchType=Contains&province=ALL&provBut=&month1=0&month2=12 |title=Canadian Climate Normals 1971-2000 |publisher=Climate.weatheroffice.gc.ca |date=4 February 2013 |access-date=25 June 2013}}</ref> |- |The [[South Pole]] and some other places in [[Antarctica]] are colder and are populated year-round, but almost everyone stays less than a year and could be considered visitors, not inhabitants. |}
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