--- title: "Babek District – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Babek District, Azerbaijan: Babek District is one of the seven districts of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan. Nearby: St. Hovhannes Church…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/babek-district" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/babek-district.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Payiz_kendi_babek_rayonu_naxcivan_svln4821_01.jpg/3840px-Payiz_kendi_babek_rayonu_naxcivan_svln4821_01.jpg" --- District of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Azerbaijan # Babek District Babek District is one of the seven districts of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan. ![Babek District](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Payiz_kendi_babek_rayonu_naxcivan_svln4821_01.jpg/3840px-Payiz_kendi_babek_rayonu_naxcivan_svln4821_01.jpg) Babek District · Wikimedia Commons The place Babek District is one of the seven districts of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan. The district borders the districts of Julfa, Shahbuz, Kangarli, Nakhchivan city, as well as the Vayots Dzor Province of Armenia and the East Azerbaijan and West Azerbaijan provinces of Iran. Its capital and largest city is Babek. As of 2020, the district had a population of 76,200. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babek_District), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Babek District 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. 1. St. Hovhannes Church (Tumbul) St. Hovhannes Church was an Armenian church located in village of Tumbul of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan. 2.1 km · church in Azerbaijan · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Hovhannes_Church_(Tumbul%29) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Babek District **Airports:** Nakhchivan (NAJ), 5 km · Tabriz (TBZ), 133 km · Zvartnots (EVN), 142 km\ - Ganja → Babek District Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/ganja-to-babek-district) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Ganja&to=Babek+District) - Baku → Babek District Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/baku-to-babek-district) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Baku&to=Babek+District) - Tabriz → Babek District Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/tabriz-to-babek-district) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Tabriz&to=Babek+District) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Babek%20District) Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Babek District 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 Babek District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Yeghegnadzor and the Vayots Dzor valley](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/yeghegnadzor) AM 9 ways of moving, 32 sources 69 km 2. [Gyumri](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gyumri) AM 12 ways of moving, 47 sources 227 km 3. [Sheki (Şəki)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sheki) AZ 10 ways of moving, 46 sources 272 km 4. [Vardzia and the Javakheti plateau](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vardzia) GE 12 ways of moving, 57 sources 308 km 5. [Gori](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gori) GE 10 ways of moving, 16 sources 334 km If you know how people move in Babek District – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cbabek-district&title=Babek+District&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fbabek-district), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Babek District - [Babek](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/babek) city in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan 800 m - [Tumbul](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tumbul) village and municipality in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Azerbaijan 3.2 km - [Haciniyyət](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/haciniyy-t) municipality in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan 3.7 km - [Qoşadizə](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/qosadiz) human settlement in Azerbaijan 2 km - [Yamkhana](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/yamkhana) human settlement in Azerbaijan 1.2 km [The place page for Babek District](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/babek-district) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Azerbaijan](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-AZ) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/babek-district, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. 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