Julfa
Culfa Ջուղա Jugha | |
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City and Municipality | |
| Culfa | |
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| Coordinates: 38°57′21″N 45°37′51″E / 38.95583°N 45.63083°E | |
| Country |  Azerbaijan |
| Autonomous republic | Nakhchivan |
| District | Julfa |
| Elevation | 715 m (2,346 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
• Total | 12,500 |
| Time zone | UTC+4 (AZT) |
Julfa (Azerbaijani: Culfa),[a] formerly Jugha (Armenian: Ջուղա, also transliterated as Djugha), is a city and the capital of the Julfa District of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan.
Julfa is separated by the Aras River from its namesake, the town of Jolfa on the Iranian side of the border. The two towns are linked by a road bridge and a railway bridge.
Both the absolute minimum temperature (−33 °C or −27.4 °F) and the absolute maximum temperature (46 °C or 114.8 °F) were observed in Julfa (and also in Ordubad).[2]
- ^ The Encyclopaedia of Islam, by Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb, Union académique internationale - 1960- p. 275
- ^ Mahmudov, Rza. "Water Resources of the Azerbaijan Republic". Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan Republic. Archived from the original on 24 May 2007. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
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