Jilikul () is a village and

jamoat The jamoats of Tajikistan (; , "village communes") are the third-level administrative divisions, similar to communes or municipalities, in the Central Asian country of Tajikistan. As of January 2020, there are 368 rural jamoats, 65 towns and 18 ci ...

in the

Khatlon Region Khatlon Region (), one of the four provinces of Tajikistan, is the most populous of the four first-level administrative regions in the country. It is situated in the southwest of the country, between the Hisor Range, Hisor (Gissar) Range in the n ...

Tajikistan Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Dushanbe is the capital city, capital and most populous city. Tajikistan borders Afghanistan to the Afghanistan–Tajikistan border, south, Uzbekistan to ...

. It is the seat of the

Dusti District Dusti District (; , before 2016: ''Jilikul District'') is a district in Khatlon Region, Tajikistan Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Dushanbe is the capital city, capital and most popul ...

(formerly: ''Jilikul District''). It is located in the southwestern portion of Tajikistan approximately 117 km (73 miles) from

Dushanbe Dushanbe is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Tajikistan. , Dushanbe had a population of 1,564,700, with this population being largely Tajiks, Tajik. Until 1929, the city was known in Russian as Dyushambe, and from 1929 to 1961 as St ...

. The jamoat has a total population of 25,382 (2015).Jamoat-level basic indicators
United Nations Development Programme in Tajikistan, accessed 15 October 2020

Geography

Climate

Jilikul has a

cold semi-arid climate Cold is the presence of low temperature, especially in the atmosphere. In common usage, cold is often a subjective perception. A lower bound to temperature is absolute zero, defined as 0.00K on the Kelvin scale, an absolute thermodynamic ...

(

Köppen climate classification The Köppen climate classification divides Earth climates into five main climate groups, with each group being divided based on patterns of seasonal precipitation and temperature. The five main groups are ''A'' (tropical), ''B'' (arid), ''C'' (te ...

''BSk''). The average annual temperature is 17.2 °C (63 °F). The warmest month is July with an average temperature of 29.9 °C (85.8 °F) and the coolest month is January with an average temperature of 3.2 °C (37.8 °F). The average annual precipitation is 264.2mm (10.4") and has an average of 66 days with precipitation. The wettest month is March with an average of 64.6mm (2.5") of precipitation and the driest month is August with an average of 0mm of precipitation.

References

Populated places in Khatlon Region {{Khatlon-geo-stub