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Village in Khuzestan, Iran

Chal Konar

Chal Konar is a village in Seyyedvaliyeddin Rural District, Sardasht District, Dezful County, Khuzestan Province, Iran.

The place

Chal Konar is a village in Seyyedvaliyeddin Rural District, Sardasht District, Dezful County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. It is the home of Iran's annual Folly Festival. At the time of the 2006 census, its population was 24, in 4 families.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Chal Konar

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
    Masjed Soleyman Dam

    The Masjed Soleyman Dam, also known as Godar-e Landar Dam, is a dam in Iran on the Karun river. It is 177 metres high, has an installed capacity of 2,000 MW, and its reservoir holds 261,000,000 cubic metres of water.

    3.9 km · dam in Iran · Wikipedia

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Getting to Chal Konar

Airports
Qasem Soleimani (AWZ), 100 km · Abadan Ayatollah Jami (ABD), 219 km · Basra (BSR), 235 km
  • Ahvaz → Chal Konar
    655 km · quickest by air, 10h 13m · $420–600
  • Abadan → Chal Konar
    629 km · quickest by air, 12h · $420–590
  • Isfahan → Chal Konar
    596 km · quickest by air, 10h 56m · $460–650
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Chal Konar

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 Chal Konar. 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

    931 km
  2. 02
    Sheki (Şəki)AZ

    10 ways of moving, 46 sources

    1,035 km
  3. 03
    GyumriAM

    12 ways of moving, 47 sources

    1,089 km
  4. 04
    Vardzia and the Javakheti plateauGE

    12 ways of moving, 57 sources

    1,170 km
  5. 05
    GoriGE

    10 ways of moving, 16 sources

    1,198 km

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