Tukzar is a

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

in Sancharak district of

Sar-e Pol Province Sar-e Pol, also spelled Sari Pul (Dari/Pashto: ), is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the north of the country. It borders Ghor and Bamyan to the south, Samangan to the east, Balkh and Jowzjan to the north, and Fary ...

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...

. The town is the administrative centre of Sancharak district.Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development of Afghanistan, NABDP, Development Programme of Sancharak District

Climate

Tukzar has a

hot-summer humid continental climate A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and freez ...

(

Köppen Köppen is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Bernd Köppen (born 1951), German pianist and composer * Carl Köppen (1833-1907), German military advisor in Meiji era Japan * Edlef Köppen (1893–1939), German author and ...

: ''Dsa'') with hot summers and cool winters. In winter, there is much more rainfall in Tokzar than in summer. July is the warmest month of the year, the temperature in July averages . In January, the average temperature is , it is the lowest average temperature of the whole year.

References

Geography of Afghanistan Populated places in Sar-e Pol Province {{SarePol-geo-stub

Climate

See also

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