hot, while winters are moderately cool. The summer season begins from Early May and continues till Late September. June and July are the hottest month with a maximum temperature range of 42 to 45 Degree Celsius and a minimum temperature range of about 29 to 35 Degree Celsius. Periodic sand storms rage through the area during May and June due to the Prevalent low humidity. The hot wind, locally known as Lu blows across the district in these months. The cool wave starts from somewhere in October. Late November December, January and February and Early March are the winter months. Though the daytime temperature in winter is not that low, however there is always a sharp decrease in nights. The mean maximum and minimum temperatures during this period are 20 and 4 Degree Celsius respectively. Rainfall is rare and sporadic and generally occurs in July and August. Administration Lakki Marwat District is subdivided into five Tehsils: Lakki Marwat Tehsil Sari Naurang Tehsil Ghazni Khel Tehsil Bettani Tehsil Chichindai Kalai (formerly Frontier Region Lakki Marwat) The district has Three municipal committees. There are 157 mauzas (the smallest revenue unit). Provincial Assembly Demographics At the time of the 2017 census the district had a population of 902,138, of which 455,402 were males and 446,732 females. Rural population was 812,886 (90.11%) while the urban population was 89,252 (9.89%). The literacy rate was 44.13% - the male literacy rate was 66.84% while the female literacy rate was 21.80%. Pashto was the predominant language, spoken by 98.70% of the population. 206 people in the district were from religious minorities. Transport Lakki Marwat was connected with Mari Indus through a narrow gauge railway line during the Raj. The city, a tehsil of Bannu then, was a railway junction. One line went to Bannu, its district, and the other to Tank. The extent of railways network has ever since defined the limits of the settled area bordering the tribal area to its west. The railway track has since been uprooted and the area now is connected through a network of roads. A detailed account of the rise and fall of this particular railway junction was published in the Daily Dawn . Neighboring areas Mianwali District Tank District Waziristan Karak Dera Ismail Khan Bannu See also Marwat Districts of Pakistan References External links Early history of Marwats Herbert Edwardes's description of Marwats .Hadi(1996).(1848–49) Marwat uprising against the Sikhs