Brilio.net/en - If you think the place you live is already too cold, too hot or too crowded, you have to check on the most extreme places in the world as listed below as posted on Path Finder City:
1. The coldest place in the world: Vostok Station, Antarctica.
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The southernmost continent in the globe has recorded the coldest temperature on Earth at -128.5°F (-89.2°C) on July 21, 1983, at an old Soviet Union outpost in the middle of Antarctica.
2. The hottest place in the world: Death Valley, California, USA.
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On the opposite spectrum, the hottest temperature ever recorded occurred in Death Valley in 1913. Recorded by the World Meteorological Organization, it reached the scorching temperature of 134°F (56.6°C).
3. The wettest place in the world: Mawsynram, India.
The rainfall in Mawsynram is about 467 inches annually!
4. The driest place in the world: Atacama Desert, Chile.
It has barely rained in this landscape of Quillagua. It has only rained four times in over 37 years. It is so dry that NASA decided that it would be the perfect location to test its Mars rover.
5. The place with the longest name in the world: Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, New Zealand.
It is a total 85 letters of Mori language that means, “The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the climber of mountains, the land-swallower who travelled about, played his nose flute to his loved one.”
6. The windiest place in the world: Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica.
Katabatic wind causes the wind gusts to get up to speeds of 150 mph during the winter months at Commonwealth Bay. Katabatic wind (from the Greek: katabaino - to go down) is the generic term for downslope winds flowing from high elevations of mountains, plateaus, and hills down their slopes to the valleys or planes below, or in short: a concentrated flow of freezing air.
7. The world’s most active volcano: Mt. Kilauea, Hawaii, USA.
Mount Kilauea erupted on the southern part of the island of Hawaii in 1983 and hasn’t stopped since! It has destroyed over 200 homes, but created over 2.2 km2 (544 acres) of new land.
8. The snowiest place in the world: Paradise, Washington, USA.
According to the National Park Service, Paradise has a maximum annual snowfall of approximately 28.5 m (93.5 feet).
9. The flattest place in the world: Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia.
The salt flat Salar de Uyuni covers about 10,360 km2 (4,000 square miles) and contains about 10 billion tons of salt.
10. The most populated place in the world: Tokyo, Japan.
Tokyo’s population grew to a staggering 37.8 million residents in 2015. It is the largest population of people ever recorded in a single city.
11. The safest place in the world: Tokyo.
Despite being the world’s most populated city, Tokyo is rated as the safest place on Earth in 2015, with extra-high scores for cyber security, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit.
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