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Village in Gilan, Iran

Bala Kuyakh

Bala Kuyakh is a village in Howmeh Rural District, in the Central District of Rasht County, Gilan Province, Iran.

The place

Bala Kuyakh is a village in Howmeh Rural District, in the Central District of Rasht County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2016 census, its population was 428, in 135 families, up from 192 people in 2006.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bala Kuyakh

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. 01
    Haj Samad Khan Mosque

    The Hajj Samad Khan Mosque is a mosque, located in Saadi Street, Rasht, in the province of Gilan, Iran. The mosque was completed in the Qajar era.

    3.9 km · Iranian Mosque · 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.

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Getting to Bala Kuyakh

Airports
Payam (PYK), 203 km · Mehrabad (THR), 237 km · Imam Khomeini (IKA), 252 km
Stations
Rasht Airport, 1.1 km
  • Tehran → Bala Kuyakh
    1777 km · quickest by road, 46h 27m · $225–305
  • Karaj → Bala Kuyakh
    1737 km · quickest by road, 45h 44m · $220–300
  • Tabriz → Bala Kuyakh
    1255 km · quickest by road, 37h 41m · $175–240
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bala Kuyakh

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 Bala Kuyakh. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inYou can easily find shared taxis to city center, it costs around 30,000 rials.
  • Get inShared taxis (Savaris) plow the Caspian coast, so getting to Rasht from anywhere in that area is easy.
  • Get inA good choice for a trip from Tehran would be a shared taxi or bus to Chalus, a spectacular route through the Alborz mountains and then a savari from Chalus to Rasht.

From Wikivoyage: Rasht, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Yeghegnadzor and the Vayots Dzor valleyAM

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    461 km
  2. 02
    Sheki (Şəki)AZ

    10 ways of moving, 46 sources

    480 km
  3. 03
    GyumriAM

    12 ways of moving, 47 sources

    630 km
  4. 04
    GoriGE

    10 ways of moving, 16 sources

    700 km
  5. 05
    Vardzia and the Javakheti plateauGE

    12 ways of moving, 57 sources

    707 km

If you know how people move in Bala Kuyakh – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Bala Kuyakh

Bala Kuyakh is 5 km from Rasht, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.