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8th
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6th
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43th
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12th
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Detailed explanation-1: -The southern zone of India is the most vulnerable to extreme climate events and their compounding impacts, followed by the eastern, western, northern, north-eastern and central zones.
Detailed explanation-2: -Bikaner and Jaisalmer in Rajasthan experience the hottest climatic conditions. Drass and Kargil in the union territory of Ladakh experience the coldest climatic conditions. Mawsynram in Meghalaya is the wettest region in India. It is also known to be the wettest region in the world.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Notre Dame Institute judges Switzerland to be the least climate vulnerable country and Niger to be the most vulnerable.
Detailed explanation-4: -Global Climate Risk Index 2021 The countries and territories affected most in 2019 were Mozambique, Zimbabwe as well as the Bahamas. For the period from 2000 to 2019 Puerto Rico, Myanmar and Haiti rank highest.
Detailed explanation-5: -The latest report of CCPI, released at COP 27 in November 2022, shows Denmark, Sweden, Chile and Morocco as the only four small countries that were ranked above India as 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th respectively. The first, second and third ranks were not awarded to any country.