Orūmīyeh
Lake Urmia is an endorheic salt lake in Iran.
Lake Urmia is an endorheic salt lake in Iran. The lake is located in the Iranian region of Azerbaijan, near the Armenian border and south of the Caspian Sea. At its greatest extent, it was the largest lake in West Asia. It was once the sixth-largest saltwater lake on Earth, with a surface area of approximately 6,000 km2 (2,300 sq mi), a length of 140 km (87 mi), a width of 70 km (43 mi), and a maximum depth of 20 m (66 ft).
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Worth seeing in and around Orūmīyeh
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Urmia Lake
Lake Urmia is an endorheic salt lake in Iran. The lake is located in the Iranian region of Azerbaijan, near the Armenian border and south of the Caspian Sea.
5.4 km · salt lake in Iran · Wikipedia
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Getting to Orūmīyeh
- Airports
- Tabriz (TBZ), 90 km · Nakhchivan (NAJ), 166 km · Erbil (EBL), 206 km
- Tabriz → Orūmīyeh122 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · $12–16
- Tehran → Orūmīyeh603 km · quickest by air, 9h 32m · $390–550
- Karaj → Orūmīyeh561 km · quickest by road, 10h 13m · $60–80
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No local-transport research exists yet for Orūmīyeh
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Orūmīyeh. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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