GK
INDIAN GEOGRAPHY
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Question
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Dras near kargil
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Jammu kashmir
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Himachal Pradesh
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Delhi
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Detailed explanation-1: -Also referred as ‘The Gateway to Ladakh, ‘ the coldest ever temperature recorded in this mountain township was-60°C (-76°F) in January 1995.
Detailed explanation-2: -In neighbouring Ladakh’s Leh, the minimum temperature was recorded at minus 13.9 degrees Celsius. Mercury at the automatic station in Kargil settled at minus 14.7 degrees Celsius. Drass, the second coldest place in the world after Siberia, recorded a low of minus 27.2 degrees Celsius.
Detailed explanation-3: -Also known as the ‘Gateway to Ladakh’, Dras will give you chills that you would have never experienced. The minimum-temperature in Dras plummets to about-40 degrees Celsius, which is more than just brain-freezing.
Detailed explanation-4: -Drass is a town located in Kargil district of Jammu and Kashmir. It is the second coldest inhabited place on earth. It is at a height of 3230 m. It is often called the ‘Gateway to Ladakh’.