Ten of the most remote and inaccessible places on our planet.
Many of us spend their days in dreams to go somewhere far away. The city bustle, the stress the way to work, noise and environmental pollution… what could be better than escape from it all in the most remote places on the planet.
In fact, you may be surprised what is considered “distant”. Each of these cities and capitals listed below in some way cut off from the rest of the world. They can be difficult to get, they may be removed geographically or can be isolated in the full sense of the word.
However, not all of them will come to mind when you hear the word “remote”. From the well-known to completely unknown, now you will learn about ten of the most remote and inaccessible places on our planet!
10. Iquitos (Iquitos), Peru
One of the ways to judge about the remoteness of the city is to imagine what would happen if all modern technology suddenly ceased to function. For residents of London or new York it would have turned into a big chaos. For residents of the Peruvian city of Iquitos is quickly turned in “Lord of the flies”.
Iquitos is hidden deep in the heart of the Amazon, surrounded by hundreds of miles of impenetrable rain forest. So deep that in order to reach civilization, will have to overcome the way on the boat for four days.
And forget about the roads! From Iquitos is only one road that dead-ends in the nearby village, located 105 kilometers away. With a population of around 400,000, Iquitos is the largest city on the planet not connected with the outside world by land message.
In the wilds of impenetrable jungle and abundant nature all have to be imported. The cost of everything from foods and drinking water to luxury goods and clothing, just above the clouds (Peru). However, Iquitos is not so difficult to visit the local airport connects the city with the country’s capital, Lima.
9. Urumqi (Ürümqi), China
Chinese urban region, Urumqi is the most far away from the coastline city in Eurasia (and possibly on the planet). If you want to swim in the sea, you will have to pass over 2240 km, to reach it. Located in the remote North-East of the Xinjiang-Uighur Autonomous district of China, Urumqi is surrounded by desert terrain. Outside the city, just mountains, desert and plains for many kilometers. In General, outside the limits of Urumqi, you will not see anything new, because nothing will break this monotonous landscape.
Urumqi is distant from the rest of China, not only geographically, but also culturally. The province is populated predominantly by Muslims, and all signs are written in Arabic. Residents usually treated with such distrust of Beijing and the ethnic Chinese that from time to time it breaks out large-scale riots, which killed dozens of people.
On the other hand, in Urumqi is not strongly felt its extreme remoteness. Being the main Outpost on the old Silk road, Urumqi is the main transport hub for people travelling through Central Asia. This means that a visit to this city is less likely to trip in one of the most remote cities on Earth, and more like a presence on the world’s largest bus station.
8. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia
The 180-strong town located on a cool, whipped up by storms the Peninsula, which is hardly adapted to human life.
The whole city is surrounded by thundering volcanoes and rugged mountains, through which it is impossible to pave the way. As a result, communication with the rest of the world is only possible by air or sea.
Near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky no settlements, and he is the most Eastern city with a population of over 100 thousand people all over the Northern hemisphere.
The nearest capital is probably the state capital of Alaska, Juneau. In General, residents of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky easier to travel to North Korea than to get to Moscow.
The city was founded as a place of a dislocation of the base of the Russian Pacific flora. Today, it attracts a small number of tourists who want to visit nearby national Park and don’t mind to shell out a considerable amount of money to get there.
7. King Edward point (King Edward Point), South Georgia and the South sandwich Islands (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)
Capital icy, windswept South Georgia and the South sandwich Islands king Edward point can not even stretch to call the city. In summer its population is less than 25 employees, and in winter even less — about 12.
Scientific and cultural Outpost under the administration of the British government, this tiny splash of civilization to 1000 km surrounded by an ocean of terrifying emptiness. The capital of South Georgia are so far apart that does not have a permanent population. The British government, perhaps hoping to try to make people here mad, trying to make movement of staff so that no one lived here more than a couple of years.
6. Siwa Oasis (Siwa Oasis), Egypt
From the point of view of time spent on the road, the Siwa oasis is not so removed from the rest of the world. You can take a bus from Cairo and you can reach it in less than half a day. However, he deserves a place in this list due to the fact that surrounds it. The city has a population of 23,000 people is located right in the middle of the Sahara desert.
This is the part of the world where scorching heat and mountains of sand make the logistics impossible for the government to govern within its own borders. If you go out in the middle of the day, you can almost roasted alive. Even if Cairo and is quite a reachable distance, you can feel like in another universe.
The distance between Siwa oasis is traced in its history. Essentially cut off from civilization until the invention of the car, he is associated with the unique culture of the Berbers, which is different from what can be seen in this region.
First, there was maintained a tradition of homosexuality and forms of same-sex marriages until the king Fouad (Fuad) has not declared them illegal in 1928. Less surprising is that here strongly followed customs that cannot be found anywhere else for decades and even centuries. Perhaps today the Siwa oasis can be visited quite easily, but historically it is one of the most isolated places on Earth.
5. Madog (Mêdog), Tibet
Medog in Tibet is a long, hard road of civilization, which includes the intersection of the often impassable mountains and fight with the terrible weather. Believe it or not, but in fact it is the result of development. The fact that until 2013 there was no road leading to Medog. Before, to reach it, you had to ride a horse and climb to a height of 1.22 km between two mountain peaks.
Why in Medog used to be so hard to get? By and large, because of the choice of location for the founding of a settlement here. Located in a narrow valley between high mountain peaks, a city with a population of 10,000 people beautiful, but largely vulnerable.
For decades the alternative to flawless landscapes Medora was confident that the police will not be able to get there and that there is no chance to get to the hospital if someone gets sick or gets hurt in the accident. The locals are just at the mercy of nature, which sounds cool, until you realize that, in Medog, you can easily die from a simple infection when cut.
Even today, in Medog difficult to reach. Though recently a road was built connecting it with civilization, but even she often closed due to landslides and snowfall.
4. Perth (Perth), Australia
Many will probably wonder what this city is doing on our list? The fourth largest city in Australia, Perth has almost 2 million inhabitants, the keepers of the night district, frequent flights to other regions of Australia and the road connecting with other cities.
However, all of this ignores two critical facts. First: Perth is set on the barren West coast of Australia, where practically no life. Second: Australia is really huge.
To reach Sydney, need to travel nearly 3.300 km in a sun-scorched limestone landscape, which is so desolate that it looks like something from a sci-Fi movie.
The nearest city with a population of at least 100,000 people (Adelaide) is located at a distance of 2100 km before it need to go in Outback (Outback), so arid and hostile areas of life that it can be safely rename in “the Punisher”.
For residents of Perth is cheaper and easier to get to Indonesia than almost every city in their own country. If tomorrow will disappear all modes of transport, Perth residents will be completely isolated from the rest of mankind (but with their night life will be fine).
3. Funafuti (Funafuti) Tuvalu
If the era of air transport has not occurred, no one in their right mind on Funafuti and not be gone. The capital is absurdly tiny island nation of Tuvalu (an area of only 26 km2) is home to only 6,000 people.
A little more than a cluster of squat houses surrounded by palm trees, it stretches along the narrow road that essentially designates all the land masses of Tuvalu. The nearest land with a population of close to a million people, Fiji is 1134 kilometers. To get to a major city to fly to New Zealand or on Hawaii.
Although many Pacific island countries are distant, Tuvalu is breaking all records. Stripe coral, surrounded by endless, rolling sea, Tuvalu is feeling like you’re on the edge of the world.
To get there, you need to first get to Fiji, in itself a pretty remote place on our planet. Then take a small plane and fly over the endless sea hundreds of kilometers away from civilization.
According to some estimates, Funafuti is so remote that in the year it is visited by only 350 tourists — less than one tourist for every day. Almost located at the same distance from civilization, the Republic of Kiribati, on the contrary, is visited by more than 5000 tourists.
2. Nuuk (Nuuk), Greenland
Nuuk is the capital and largest city in Greenland. The proposal, which artfully disguised how incredibly remote and tiny it is. The entire population of Nuuk is 16.568 people, the number is so small that if the city was in some other country, it would be called a village.
The same applies to its remoteness. By the standards of Greenland, Nuuk is not a distant city (perhaps the top prize for this belongs to the city of Illoqqortoormiut (Ittoqqortoormiit)). But as they say, everything is relative.
No other capital in the world located North of Nuuk. And to get there is a huge effort, because you can reach Nuuk can transit via Iceland or Copenhagen, and the tickets cost a lot. And even being in Nuuk, will have to experience a lot of discomfort: Greenland, in essence, is a giant ice sheet with the terrible weather and lack of roads.
If you walk around Nooku in almost any direction, it could soon be lost in the wilderness of ice and nothingness. On the positive side we can note wages in Nuuk, which is so cosmic that young Danes are moving here solely in order to get rich quickly.
1. Yakutsk, Russia
Yakutsk is a remote place so that to some it even seems a joke. It is the capital of Yakutia (Sakha Republic), a region that covers over 3 million km2 and is home to just under a million inhabitants. In Yakutia, a sufficient number of lakes and rivers to every resident possessed one of them. The region is divided into several administrative centers, and in many of them there is only one small village.
The way to Yakutsk is almost impossible. There is only one road, which can be used only in the winter (when frozen river), and failure of the ice would mean certain death. The railroad there. If you get on the water, then a trip on the river is 1,600 km and can be carried out only in the summer when the river does not freeze. There it is possible to fly from Moscow, breaking through the air a distance of almost 5000 miles in 6 hours.
When they reached Yakutsk, immediately understand that this place is unimaginably inhospitable to human life. Previously, the town used as places of detention of political dissidents, and it is easy to understand why.
In a warm winter the temperature drops “only” to -30°C. most Often it drops to -50°C. in Other words, to Yakutsk is not only hard to hit this town makes you wonder why there even live people.
