What is the coldest country in the world? What is the coldest country in the world?

The coldest region is Antarctica.

The coldest countries are mainly Iceland, Russia, and Greenland.

Antarctica, the continent surrounding Antarctica. Located at the southern end of the earth, it is surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, and on its edges are the Bellingshausen Sea, the Ross Sea, the Amundsen Sea and the Weddell Sea. Antarctica consists of continent, continental margin ice, and islands, with a total area of ??14.245 million square kilometers, of which the continent area is 12.393 million square kilometers, the continental margin ice area is 1.582 million square kilometers, and the island area is 76,000 square kilometers. The entire territory is a large plateau with an average altitude of 2,350 meters, making it the continent with the highest average altitude in the world.

The continent is almost entirely covered by glaciers, accounting for more than 80% of the world's modern ice cover area. The continental glaciers extend from the center to the sea, forming the huge Ross Ice Barrier, surrounded by icebergs floating in the sea.

Only 2% of the entire continent is not covered by permanent ice and snow, and animals and plants can survive. The climate is extremely cold, with the extreme minimum temperature reaching -89.2℃ (in 1983). The wind speed generally reaches 17 to 18 meters per second, and the maximum reaches more than 90 meters per second. It is the coldest, stormiest and windiest land in the world. The average annual precipitation across the continent is 55 mm, with almost no precipitation near the pole. The air is very dry, and it is known as the "white desert".

In the Antarctic Circle, there are continuous polar days in the warm season, and continuous polar nights in the cold season, with brilliant arc-shaped aurora appearing. Animals include penguins, walruses, sea lions, albatrosses, etc. The nearby ocean produces Antarctic cod, largemouth fish, etc., and the krill production is the largest in the world. Minerals that have been discovered include coal, oil, natural gas, gold, silver, nickel, molybdenum, manganese, iron, copper, uranium, etc., mainly distributed in the Antarctic Peninsula and coastal island areas.

There are no settled residents in the continent, only scientific expedition personnel and whaling teams from all over the world. In December 1911, the Norwegian Amundsen expedition reached the Antarctic Pole for the first time. In December 1959, 12 countries signed the Antarctic Treaty and it came into effect in 1961. So far, various countries have built more than 60 observation stations and more than 100 research bases in Antarctica. The Chinese Antarctic Expedition has built the Great Wall Station, Zhongshan Station, Kunlun Station and Taishan Station.

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