Question

Which of the following places is more likely to have the coldest winter?

Question 62 options:

A place with 30°N latitude in East Asia

A place with 30°S latitude in Africa

A place with 45°N latitude in central Asia

A place with 47°S latitude in South America

Answer 1

Answer:

A place with 45°N latitude in central Asia

Explanation:

• Central Asia consists of a 4,003,451 km square area and has a population of  71,982,775. Being an extremely wide region with well-defined geography with vast desert land and mountainous terrain. Most of this area is too rugged for farming.

• It also has some geographic extremes like the Eurasian pole of inaccessibility.

• Worlds shorted distance between the non-frozen desert and permafrost: 770 km.

• The world's northernmost desert located in Mongolia. and southernmost permafrost, also at Mongolia. It's not buffed with a large body of water as the areas are the dry and continental type of climate thus it has coldest winters like Kazakhstan -4 °C and -19 °C.