--- title: "Kangāvar – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Kangāvar, Iran: Kangavar is a city in the Central District of Kangavar County, Kermanshah province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kangavar" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kangavar.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Kengavar_%28Kang%C4%81var%29._Parallele_des_temples_de_Kengavar_et_de_Palmyre_%28NYPL_b12482496-1542731%29.tiff/lossy-page1-1920px-Kengavar_%28Kang%C4%81var%29._Parallele_des_temples_de_Kengavar_et_de_Palmyre_%28NYPL_b12482496-1542731%29.tiff.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- City in Kermanshah province, Iran # Kangāvar Kangavar is a city in the Central District of Kangavar County, Kermanshah province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. ![Kangāvar](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Kengavar_%28Kang%C4%81var%29._Parallele_des_temples_de_Kengavar_et_de_Palmyre_%28NYPL_b12482496-1542731%29.tiff/lossy-page1-1920px-Kengavar_%28Kang%C4%81var%29._Parallele_des_temples_de_Kengavar_et_de_Palmyre_%28NYPL_b12482496-1542731%29.tiff.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Kangāvar · Scan by NYPL The place Kangavar is a city in the Central District of Kangavar County, Kermanshah province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangavar), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Kangāvar 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. Kangavar Palace The Anahita Temple is the name of one of two archaeological sites in Iran popularly thought to have been attributed to the ancient Iranian deity Anahita. The larger and more widely known of the two is located at Kangāvar in Kermanshah Province. 300 m · palace in Kangavar, Iranian national heritage site · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Anahita,_Kangavar) 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 Kangāvar **Airports:** Payam (PYK), 297 km\ - Tehran → Kangāvar 341 km · quickest by road, 5h 2m · $32–44 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/tehran-to-kangavar) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Tehran&to=Kang%C4%81var) - Karaj → Kangāvar 312 km · quickest by road, 5h 9m · $32–44 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/karaj-to-kangavar) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Karaj&to=Kang%C4%81var) - Ahvaz → Kangāvar 360 km · quickest by road, 7h 12m · $43–60 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/ahvaz-to-kangavar) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Ahvaz&to=Kang%C4%81var) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Kang%C4%81var) 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 Kangāvar 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 Kangāvar. 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 629 km 2. [Sheki (Şəki)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sheki) AZ 10 ways of moving, 46 sources 748 km 3. [Gyumri](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gyumri) AM 12 ways of moving, 47 sources 787 km 4. [Vardzia and the Javakheti plateau](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vardzia) GE 12 ways of moving, 57 sources 867 km 5. [Gori](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gori) GE 10 ways of moving, 16 sources 897 km If you know how people move in Kangāvar – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Ckangavar&title=Kang%C4%81var&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fkangavar), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Kangāvar - [Godin Tepe](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/godin-tepe) human settlement 9.9 km - [Darbesar](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/darbesar) village in Iran 7.6 km - [Duleh,Kermanshah](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/duleh-kermanshah) village in Iran 2.8 km - [Gowdin](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gowdin) city in Kermanshah Province, Iran 9.8 km - [Dom Badam](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/dom-badam) village in Iran 4 km - [Fashkhvoran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/fashkhvoran) village in Iran 5.5 km [The place page for Kangāvar](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/kangavar) [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/kangavar, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. 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