Kevin,
I am
sorry I wrote "city". Probably I should have been writing "town". (In
Norwegian it is the same one word for both the English words, and
American tourists are frequently naming any small village of ours "a
city", which makes us to do the same ;-)))
Guinnes Book of World Records counts only towns with a population above
(about?) 10,000 persons, and Russian Dikson, Sibiria is listed as the
northernmost town of the World.
I
cannot understand why it should be so difficult to prove if a city has that big
population or not. Hammerfest municipality today has about 9200 persons which
makes it not that far away. Hammerfest has been a town since the end of the 18th
century.
According to my Webster a town is "a village with a regular market
place", and a city is "an important town".
Jan