--- title: "Gavlan, Urmia – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Gavlan, Urmia, Iran: Gavlan is a village in Anzal-e Jonubi Rural District of Anzal District in Urmia County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran. Nearby: St.…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gavlan" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gavlan.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/%DA%A9%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%A7%DB%8C_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%AE%D9%86%D8%A7_%DA%AF%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86.jpg/3840px-%DA%A9%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%A7%DB%8C_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%AE%D9%86%D8%A7_%DA%AF%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86.jpg" --- Village in West Azerbaijan province, Iran # Gavlan, Urmia Gavlan is a village in Anzal-e Jonubi Rural District of Anzal District in Urmia County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran. ![Gavlan, Urmia](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/%DA%A9%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%A7%DB%8C_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%AE%D9%86%D8%A7_%DA%AF%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86.jpg/3840px-%DA%A9%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%A7%DB%8C_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%AE%D9%86%D8%A7_%DA%AF%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86.jpg) Gavlan, Urmia · Wikimedia Commons The place Gavlan is a village in Anzal-e Jonubi Rural District of Anzal District in Urmia County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran. It is inhabited by Kurdish-speaking Christian Assyrians, Sunni Muslim Kurds, and Shia Muslim Turks. There are three churches in the village and one mosque used by the Sunni and Shia Muslims. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavlan%2C_Urmia), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Gavlan, Urmia 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. John Church, Gavelan St. John Church is an ancient Assyrian church located in Gavelan between Urmia and Salmas, Iran. 600 m · Iranian national heritage site · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John_Church,_Gavelan) 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 Gavlan, Urmia **Airports:** Tabriz (TBZ), 110 km · Nakhchivan (NAJ), 143 km · Erbil (EBL), 213 km\ - Tabriz → Gavlan, Urmia Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/tabriz-to-gavlan-urmia) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Tabriz&to=Gavlan%2C+Urmia) - Tehran → Gavlan, Urmia Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/tehran-to-gavlan-urmia) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Tehran&to=Gavlan%2C+Urmia) - Karaj → Gavlan, Urmia Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/karaj-to-gavlan-urmia) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Karaj&to=Gavlan%2C+Urmia) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Gavlan%2C%20Urmia) Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Gavlan, Urmia 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 Gavlan, Urmia. 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 203 km 2. [Gyumri](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gyumri) AM 12 ways of moving, 47 sources 330 km 3. [Sheki (Şəki)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sheki) AZ 10 ways of moving, 46 sources 407 km 4. [Vardzia and the Javakheti plateau](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vardzia) GE 12 ways of moving, 57 sources 408 km 5. [Gori](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gori) GE 10 ways of moving, 16 sources 454 km If you know how people move in Gavlan, Urmia – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cgavlan&title=Gavlan%2C+Urmia&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fgavlan), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Gavlan, Urmia Gavlan, Urmia is 46 km from [Orūmīyeh](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/orumiyeh), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Qulonji](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/qulonji) village in Iran 2.6 km - [Jamalabad, Urmia](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/jamalabad-urmia) village in Iran 1.9 km [The place page for Gavlan, Urmia](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/gavlan) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Iran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-IR) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gavlan, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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