One fifth of the earth's surface is covered by permafrost.
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Permafrost
//ˈpɝməˌfɹɔst//
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48 translations across 30 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- تُربَةُ صَقِيعِيّة noun (permanently frozen ground)
Bulgarian
1 entries- вечно замръзнала почва noun (permanently frozen ground)
Catalan
1 entries- pergelisòl noun (permanently frozen ground)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 永久凍土 /永久冻土 noun (permanently frozen ground)
Dutch
1 entries- permafrost noun (permanently frozen ground)
Finnish
1 entries- ikirouta noun (permanently frozen ground)
French
2 entries- pergélisol noun (permanently frozen ground)
- permafrost noun (permanently frozen ground)
Galician
1 entries- permafrost noun (permanently frozen ground)
Georgian
4 entries- მარად მზრალი გრუნტი noun (permanently frozen ground)
- მარად მზრალი ნიადაგი noun (permanently frozen ground)
- მარად მზრალი ქვენიადაგი noun (permanently frozen ground)
- მარადი მზრალობა noun (permanently frozen ground)
German
1 entries- Permafrostboden noun (permanently frozen ground)
Indonesian
1 entries- ibun abadi noun (permanently frozen ground)
Inuktitut
1 entries- ᐊᐅᔪᐃᑦᑐᖅ noun (permanently frozen ground)
Irish
2 entries- talamh shíorshioctha noun (permanently frozen ground)
- talamh síorshioctha noun (permanently frozen ground)
Italian
3 entries- permafrost noun (permanently frozen ground)
- permagelo noun (permanently frozen ground)
- permaghiaccio noun (permanently frozen ground)
Japanese
1 entries- 永久凍土 noun (permanently frozen ground)
Korean
1 entries- 영구동토 noun (permanently frozen ground)
Latvian
1 entries- mūžīgais sasalums noun (permanently frozen ground)
Lithuanian
1 entries- amžinasis įšalas noun (permanently frozen ground)
Macedonian
1 entries- вечен мраз noun (permanently frozen ground)
Malay
1 entries- ibun abadi noun (permanently frozen ground)
Manx
1 entries- sheer-rio noun (permanently frozen ground)
Māori
1 entries- upokomārō pūmau noun (permanently frozen ground)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- permafrost noun (permanently frozen ground)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- permafrost noun (permanently frozen ground)
Polish
1 entries- wieczna zmarzlina noun (permanently frozen ground)
Portuguese
1 entries- permafrost noun (permanently frozen ground)
Russian
1 entries- ве́чная мерзлота́ noun (permanently frozen ground)
Spanish
4 entries- gelisuelo noun (permanently frozen ground)
- pergelisol noun (permanently frozen ground)
- pergelisuelo noun (permanently frozen ground)
- permacongelamiento noun (permanently frozen ground)
Ukrainian
2 entries- багаторі́чна мерзлота́ noun (permanently frozen ground)
- ві́чна мерзлота noun (permanently frozen ground)
Welsh
2 entries- iâ parhaol noun (permanently frozen ground)
- rhew parhaol noun (permanently frozen ground)
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One-fifth of the Earth's surface is covered by permafrost.
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Permafrost covers one-fifth of the Earth's surface.
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The permafrost is thawing.
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