19-08-2015 13:03 via feeds.theguardian.com

Where is the world’s most remote city?

One Russian city sits on a distant peninsula surrounded by volcanoes. Iquitos, in the heart of the Amazon jungle, has no roads leading in or out. Then there are contenders in Tibet, Greenland, Australia …Other than a 65-mile, dead-end stretch to the town of Nauta, there are no roads leading in or out of the Amazonian city of Iquitos, Peru. While its small airport has direct flights to Lima, most goods are shipped in or out by river. The shortest distance would be upriver to Yurimaguas, a
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