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The most northern settlements on Earth are ... 12° N is Svalbard's primary city, ... settlement in the world is Camp Barneo, a Russian tourist attraction located ...
Russia's Federal State Statistics Service lists Norilsk as the most polluted city in Russia. In 2017, Norilsk produced 1.798 million tons of carbon pollutants—nearly six times more than the 304,600 tons that was generated by Russia's second-most polluted city, Cherepovets. Norilsk, the report states, decontaminates almost half of its emissions.
Dikson (Russian: Ди́ксон, IPA:) (also spelled Dixon) is a port located in northern Russia and is one of the world's northernmost settlements.Dikson is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) situated in Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District of Krasnoyarsk Krai.
The Far North is known for its extremely harsh climate. People who work there, other than the inmates of labor camps that constituted the Gulag system of the Soviet Union and the inmates of corrective labor colonies in present-day Russia, receive an extra grade of payment, referred to as the "Northern Bonus" (severnye nadbavki Russian: северные надбавки).
The Nord Kamal Mosque (Russian: Нурд-Камал) is the largest mosque in the city of Norilsk, Russia.It is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the most northernly-situated mosque in the world.
Murmansk (Russian: Мурманск) is a port city and the administrative center of Murmansk Oblast in the far northwest part of Russia.It remains the world's largest city north of the Arctic Circle and sits on both slopes and banks of a modest fjord, Kola Bay, an estuarine inlet of the Barents Sea, with its bulk on the east bank of the inlet.
Vatican City: Corner of Viale Vaticano and Via Leone IV: 41°54′N Azerbaijan: Northernmost point alongside border with Georgia: 41°53′N Greece: Ormenio, Evros prefecture: 41°43′N Armenia: Mamai: 41°17′N Tajikistan: North of Punuk: 41°02′N Iran: North of Qush, West Azerbaijan region: 39°47′N South Korea
Saint Petersburg is the fourth-most populous city in Europe, the most populous city on the Baltic Sea, and the world's northernmost city of more than 1 million residents. As the former capital of Imperial Russia, and a historically strategic port, it is governed as a federal city.