Bābol
Babol is a city in the Central District of Babol County, Mazandaran province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.

Babol is a city in the Central District of Babol County, Mazandaran province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. Babol is divided into two metropolitan areas.
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Worth seeing in and around Bābol
3 places 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.
- 01Babol University of Medical Sciences
Babol University of Medical Sciences is a medical sciences university in the city of Babol, Mazandaran Province, Iran. The university was founded in 1985, and the first group of students beginning their studies in 1986.
1.8 km · university in Babol, Iran · Wikipedia - 02Jameh Mosque of Babol
The Jāmeh Mosque of Babol is a Shi'ite Friday mosque, located in Babol, in the province of Mazandaran, Iran. The mosque was added to the Iran National Heritage List on 2 October 2001, administered by the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization of Iran.
500 m · mosque in Babol, Iranian national heritage site · Wikipedia - 03Babol Noshirvani University of Technology
Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, sometimes also referred to as Noshirvani Institute of Technology or NIT, is a public research university and Institute of Technology in Babol, Mazandaran province in the north of Iran, 20 km south of the Caspian Sea. The university is an influential center for academic research in Iran, due to which it has been consistently ranked among the top 10 schools in the country.
1.6 km · university in Babol, Iran · Wikipedia
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.
What Wikivoyage says to see
Palace of Abbas I's ruins.
- 01Mohammad Hassan Khan Bridge
One of the most ancient structures of Mazandaran.
- 02Babol
Biggest park including playground located in the north part of Iran, located almost in the vicinity of Caspian Sea.
From Wikivoyage: Bābol, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Bābol
- Airports
- Mehrabad (THR), 155 km · Imam Khomeini (IKA), 186 km · Payam (PYK), 187 km
- Tehran → Bābol148 km · quickest by road, 4h 5m · $17–23
- Karaj → Bābol171 km · quickest by road, 4h 54m · $21–28
- Isfahan → Bābol443 km · quickest by road, 10h · $50–70
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No local-transport research exists yet for Bābol
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 Bābol. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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