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City in Golestan province, Iran

Gorgān

Gorgan is a city in the Central District of Gorgan County, Golestan province, Iran, serving as capital of the province, the county, and the district.

Gorgān
Gorgān · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Gorgan is a city in the Central District of Gorgan County, Golestan province, Iran, serving as capital of the province, the county, and the district. It lies approximately 400 km (250 mi) to the northeast of the national capital Tehran, and some 30 km (19 mi) away from the Caspian Sea.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Gorgān

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
    Jameh Mosque of Gorgan

    The Jameh Mosque of Gorgan is a Shi'ite Friday mosque, located next to the old bazaar, in the Nalbandan neighborhood of Gorgan, in the province of Golestan, Iran. The mosque was built in 1018 CE, during the Seljuk era, and has been extensively renovated in subsequent years.

    800 m · mosque in Gorgan, Iranian national heritage site · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Islamic Azad University of Gorgan

    The Islamic Azad University, Gorgan Branch is a campus of Islamic Azad University system in Iran.

    3.1 km · university in 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.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

Alangdarreh Forest Park, is especially beautiful at autumn. The trees of this forest are unique to the Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests. Nahar-Khoran. Ziarat Village. Ziarat Waterfall. Hezarpich Hill. Ghorogh Forest Park. Tuskestan Forest. Shast-Kola Forest. Emadiyeh School.

From Wikivoyage: Gorgān, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

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Getting to Gorgān

Stations
Gorgan Airport, 8.3 km
  • Tehran → Gorgān
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Karaj → Gorgān
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Mashhad → Gorgān
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Gorgān

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 Gorgān. 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
    Sheki (Şəki)AZ

    10 ways of moving, 46 sources

    792 km
  2. 02
    Yeghegnadzor and the Vayots Dzor valleyAM

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    858 km
  3. 03
    GyumriAM

    12 ways of moving, 47 sources

    1,016 km
  4. 04
    GoriGE

    10 ways of moving, 16 sources

    1,055 km
  5. 05
    Vardzia and the Javakheti plateauGE

    12 ways of moving, 57 sources

    1,086 km

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

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