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==Environment==
[[File:Palana.jpg|thumb|[[Palana, Russia|Palana]], a majority Koryak town in [[Kamchatka Krai]]]]
Koryak lands are [[mountain]]s and volcanic, covered in mostly Arctic tundra. [[Conifer]]ous trees lie near the southern regions along the coast of the Shelekhova Bay of the [[Sea of Okhotsk]]. The northern regions inland are much colder, where only various shrubs grow, but these are enough to sustain reindeer migration.{{sfn|Chaussonnet|1995|p=28-29}} The mean temperature in [[winter]] is {{convert|-13|C|F}} while the short [[summer]]s are {{convert|+12|C|F}}. The area they covered before Russian colonization was {{convert|301,500|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}, roughly corresponding to the [[Koryak Okrug]], of which the administrative centre is [[Palana, Russia|Palana]].{{sfn|Kolga|2001|pp=230-234}} Today the Koryak are the largest minority group with 8,743 people. The krai's population is now majority ethnic Russian, descendants of the Cossack colonists.