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Coldest Countries with Exceptions

Most of the coldest countries in the world are in Europe. Try to guess the coldest countries (by average annual temperature) whose population is NOT primarily in Europe.
For the years 1991–2020. Source.
Russia is considered a European country
Average temperature over the entire country. Think mountains!
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First submittedOctober 14, 2016
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Country
-4.5
Canada
-0.7
Mongolia
2.6
Tajikistan
2.8
Kyrgyzstan
5.7
Bhutan
7.2
North Korea
7.3
Kazakhstan
°C
Country
7.9
China
8.0
Georgia
8.5
Armenia
9.3
Chile
9.3
United States
10.0
Nepal
11.0
New Zealand
°C
Country
11.8
Turkey
12.2
Lesotho
12.3
Japan
12.8
South Korea
13.0
Afghanistan
13.3
Azerbaijan
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59 Comments
smartguy2
+11
Level 68
Nov 6, 2017
Turkey?
fuanacdc
+24
Level 89
Jul 11, 2023
Turkey
Arp2600
+9
Level 89
Aug 22, 2023
Turkey???
Fianchetto
+8
Level 78
Dec 13, 2023
Turkey!
QuizApe
+9
Level 72
Dec 13, 2023
Türkiye?
Weyo
+7
Level 55
Dec 13, 2023
Türkiye
jeffreygamer
+4
Level 57
Dec 13, 2023
Turquia?
KevinFlynn36
+4
Level 48
Dec 13, 2023
Turquia.
daboishangoutusa
+3
Level 45
May 30, 2024
Turquelia??
KiloNova
+4
Level 61
Jul 8, 2024
Turquelia.
Sifhraven
+4
Level 76
Sep 25, 2024
Turquoise?
Phytox
+4
Level 69
Dec 2, 2025
Turquoise!
SmokinJoe3
+6
Level 63
Dec 6, 2024
TEQUILA!
JantjeMokum
+2
Level 65
Dec 18, 2024
Turkije?
GeographyBAHRAIN
+4
Level 62
Apr 17, 2025
Turkey.
adelinaashtray
+3
Level 57
Dec 2, 2025
turkei
Anonymousbear25
+1
Level 56
Mar 28, 2026
Turquie !!
Neodymium
+1
Level 63
Jul 8, 2023
May i make a spanish translation?
GeoGeniusThe1
+3
Level 43
Jul 9, 2023
coldest countries not in europe
Fergy586
+11
Level 80
Jul 8, 2023
Shoot I even said South Africa but not Lesotho
Jonney
+4
Level 60
Dec 13, 2023
I did too but then remembered the high elevation of Lesotho. It was the last one I got.
duckwantbread
+4
Level 66
Jul 10, 2023
I should have read the "majority of the population not in Europe" condition a bit more carefully, I didn't guess one of the answers because I thought it was European.
WanderingWalrus
+19
Level 82
Jul 20, 2023
Isn't Cyprus...sorry, wrong quiz
UnitedStatesQuizzes
+4
Level 70
Jul 23, 2023
Very surprised about Lesotho.
loni
+10
Level 68
Aug 23, 2023
It's a mountainous country in the south of Africa. South Africa itself has low temperatures.
ezee
+4
Level 69
Sep 13, 2023
what's so suprising?
Arp2600
+3
Level 89
Aug 22, 2023
Turkey is very surprising, I don't understand.

On the other hand, Lesotho, being the country with the highest lowest point in the world (about 1400m!), is very mountainous and is the only African country I expected to find here.

eibi
+9
Level 80
Sep 21, 2023
Altitude. In many places, Turkey reaches 1000 m ASL just a few miles from the coast.
Amilcar
+6
Level 73
Dec 13, 2023
Turkey. I remember my flight being stuck in Diyarbakir once because of a freezing fog that coated everything in ice and grounded all the flights, a stormy winter day in Van and a bitter weekend in Istanbul.
Dollyfroggy
+2
Level 63
Dec 13, 2023
I read the title as Coldest Countries with Expectations.
randommonke
+1
Level 33
Dec 13, 2023
I suck, I got all but South Korea
GeorgianPotato
+1
Level 42
Dec 13, 2023
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Turkiye are in Europe (partly)
ScotiaTyson
+2
Level 28
Dec 13, 2023
But most of it's population lives in Asia.
clone2k
+3
Level 57
Dec 15, 2023
Although socioculturally they are much closer to European society, however geographically they are considered part of the Asian continent.
JonOfKent
+1
Level 61
Dec 13, 2023
Nepal is on average warmer than the USA?? How does that work?
clone2k
+1
Level 57
Dec 15, 2023
I guess it's because their higher altitude (they do have Mount Everest, after all) that makes their overall temperature lower/colder than most other adjacent countries who are of lower altitude such as India.
cbonzell
+4
Level 56
Mar 5, 2024
The 25% of Nepal not covered by the Himalayas are super hot, and shares a very similar climate to neighboring India. Meanwhile the US has a large percentage of area in a temperate, but not hot, climate.

Note: Alaska is cold as hell

ArstanWhitebeard
+2
Level 80
Mar 27, 2024
I always thought of hell as being very hot
KiloNova
+1
Level 61
Jul 8, 2024
The bottom of hell is actually the coldest because heat rises
lenbread
+1
Level 59
Dec 3, 2025
as a Nevadan I can confirm I live in hell it's hot here even in winter
clone2k
+2
Level 57
Dec 15, 2023
Lesotho? Wow didn't expect that. What makes their temperature lower than their neighboring countries, e.g. South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Eswatini etc?
selful
+4
Level 69
Feb 26, 2024
High elevation.
cbonzell
+1
Level 56
Mar 5, 2024
helps to know your latitudes and mountain ranges on this one!
shaniquanderson
+1
Level 58
May 18, 2024
afghanistan?! what are you doing here?!
JantjeMokum
+2
Level 65
Dec 18, 2024
A large part of Afghanistan consists of mountains. It's also quite far from the sea wich can make for colder winters.
SmokinJoe3
+1
Level 63
Dec 6, 2024
Took me almost the entire time to think of Canada... I know.
Pontiac
+1
Level 62
Feb 11, 2025
Bud, I think you have got some problems if it took you the entire time!
linonion
+2
Level 57
Jan 2, 2025
Is it not kind of dumb to count Russia as a 'European country' when all the coldest parts (Siberia) is entirely in Asia?

This is kind of like excluding Egypt from the quiz "largest countries in the world that are not in Asia" because one part of it, the Sinai peninsula, is considered part of Asia....

What makes it worse is that Asian Russia is indeed the coldest country in the world, and makes up the majority of Russia's territory...

Quizmaster
+5
Level ∞
Jan 2, 2025
Not "dumb" at all since the European part of Russia is extremely cold as well.
Enter7extHere
+5
Level 52
Jan 7, 2025
"countries ... whose population is primarily not in Europe."
Pontiac
+2
Level 62
Feb 11, 2025
I don't know why people miss these things in the instructions only for people like us to explain it!
Pontiac
+2
Level 62
Feb 11, 2025
I got all of them correct on the first try! HOW DOES AFGHANISTAN APPEAR!!
smush75
+2
Level 60
May 17, 2025
Go ahead and find a map of Afghanistan's physical geography. The nation is very mountainous!
Tadeu
+1
Level 68
Sep 4, 2025
I just typed it because so many countries near it were on the quiz and there wasnt much else I could've tried, but yea, I was also surprised
smush75
+1
Level 60
May 17, 2025
Chile took some time, but otherwise, got them all fairly quickly. Great quiz!
RoboquizM86
+2
Level 61
Dec 2, 2025
I thought Argentina might be on there as it is close too south pole.
cheeeeeeems
+1
Level 25
Dec 4, 2025
same, perhaps the La Plata plain is too hot
cheeeeeeems
+1
Level 25
Dec 4, 2025
I guessed everything except Mongolia, Nepal and Bhutan, even including Lesotho and Turkey. I feel so bad.
flysta
+1
Level 51
Dec 9, 2025
How do you calculate avarge annual temperature for a country? Is there datapoints all over the countries? or just cities? How does it work?
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