# Snowiest City in World?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowiest-city-in-world/96332>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 1, 2001, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowiest-city-in-world/96332 "2001-12-01T17:20:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![UDS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecae2f/32.png) [@UDS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UDS)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowiest-city-in-world/96332/61 "2010-11-26T08:49:33Z")

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> [@An\_Gadai](#):
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> I don’t know the precise number but I think you’re incorrect. It’s something \<1000. I heard “over 700” before. I think the number you used is for the whole country or you made it up. 🙂

Why would I make something up when I can google it? But you’re right; I googled carelessly. My figure relates to the whole country.

UDS’s law stands, though!

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**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowiest-city-in-world/96332/62 "2010-11-26T14:15:24Z")

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> [@Redfishhunter930](#):
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> Not really trying to nitpick Athena,but the question was for cities.I’m sure you get more than Quebec.The pictures are from 2008 the record year.  
> And to be honest I was trying to get the question back in the forefront

I wasn’t suggesting that my town was in the running, because as you point out, we’re looking for cities. But people have already listed many cities with more avg snowfall than Quebec city.

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**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowiest-city-in-world/96332/63 "2010-11-26T15:03:55Z")

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> [@Chefguy](#):
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> The parameters here seem to be population numbers. For the purposes of this thread, it would seem that a city is an incorporated entity with people living in it.

Ah, but what is an incorporated entity? The notion of “incorporating” a place doesn’t even exist in Spanish law and I imagine it can’t be the only country where it doesn’t. Would an area with several different nuclei, none of which is big enough to have a governing body, and a single collective governing body count as “an incorporated entity”?

One of the things we studied in 10th grade Geography was that the definitions of “city, town, village, etc.” change from place to place. In Spain it’s linked mostly to history, in the US to size and the figures which the book had for what would be a “town” in the US would be considered “a middling-size village unless it happens to have a better ranking due to history” in Spain. If y’all want to apply a uniform definition, you need to state it exactly.

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