If you think the place you are living at the moment, is the coldest one, then a visit to the Russian village of Oymyakon might just change your mind.
With the average temperature for January standing at -50C, this village is the coldest permanently inhabited settlement in the world.
Known as the 'Pole of Cold', the coldest ever temperature recorded in Oymyakon was -71.2C.
This is the lowest recorded temperature for any permanently inhabited location on Earth and the lowest temperature recorded in the Northern Hemisphere.
The village is home to around 500 people and was a stopover for reindeer herders in the 1920s and 1930s who would water their flocks from the thermal spring.
But the Soviet government, in its efforts to settle nomadic populations, believing them to be difficult to control and technologically and culturally backward, made the site a permanent settlement.
Ironically, the word Oymyakon actually means 'non-freezing water' and it is named so due to a nearby hot spring.
