Most of the coldest countries in the world are in Europe. Try to guess the coldest countries (by average annual temperature) whose population is primarily not in Europe.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lesotho? Wow didn't expect that. What makes their temperature lower than their neighboring countries, e.g. South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Eswatini etc?
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.
Note: Alaska is cold as hell