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Birlan

Birlan is a village in Bakeshluchay Rural District, in the Central District of Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran.

Birlan
Birlan · BET
The place

Birlan is a village in Bakeshluchay Rural District, in the Central District of Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 148, in 35 families.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Birlan

2 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.

  1. 01
    Geoy Tepe

    Geoy Tepe is an archaeological site in northwestern Iran, about seven kilometers south of Urmia, Gug Tappeh. It was found by an aerial survey of ancient sites in Persia done by Erich Schmidt in the 1930s.

    2.8 km · Iranian national heritage site · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Sts. Peter and Paul Church, Urmia

    Sts. Peter and Paul Church is an ancient Assyrian church located in Asayesh, Bakeshluchay east of Urmia, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran.

    3.1 km · Iranian national heritage site · 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.

Go there

Getting to Birlan

Airports
Tabriz (TBZ), 115 km · Erbil (EBL), 181 km · Nakhchivan (NAJ), 186 km
  • Tabriz → Birlan
    116 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · $12–17
  • Tehran → Birlan
    594 km · quickest by air, 9h 16m · $380–540
  • Karaj → Birlan
    552 km · quickest by air, 9h 28m · $390–560
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Birlan

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 Birlan. 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. 01
    Yeghegnadzor and the Vayots Dzor valleyAM

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    248 km
  2. 02
    GyumriAM

    12 ways of moving, 47 sources

    380 km
  3. 03
    Sheki (Şəki)AZ

    10 ways of moving, 46 sources

    443 km
  4. 04
    Vardzia and the Javakheti plateauGE

    12 ways of moving, 57 sources

    458 km
  5. 05
    GoriGE

    10 ways of moving, 16 sources

    503 km

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

Around it

Next door to Birlan

Birlan is 9 km from Orūmīyeh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.