Official Name: | Kuran wa Munjan |
Native Name: | Persian کران و منجان |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Afghanistan |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Afghanistan |
Coordinates: | 36.0286°N 70.7725°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Afghanistan |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Badakhshan |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Kuran wa Munjan |
Elevation M: | 2527 |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Kurān wa Munjān, also spelled Kiran wa Munjan (‘Alāqahdārī Kirān wa Munjān) or Koran va Monjan,[1] (Persian: کران و منجان) is a village in Badakhshan Province in north-eastern Afghanistan.[2] It is the capital of Kuran wa Munjan District.
Owing to its altitude, Kuran wa Munjan features a subarctic climate (Dsc) bordering on a tundra climate (ET) under the Köppen climate classification. It has brief, pleasant summers and very cold, snowy winters. Winters are extremely long with below-freezing months from October until May. Summers are very short and the seasonal lag prevailed as August is the warmest month of the year with an average temperature of 10.1°C. The coldest month January has an average temperature of -17.2°C.
The annual precipitation averages 1098.6mm, with August as the driest month with 17mm of rainfall, while May, the wettest month, has an average precipitation of 166.2mm.