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City in West Azerbaijan province, Iran

Khoy

Khoy is a city in the Central District of Khoy County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.

Khoy
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The place

Khoy is a city in the Central District of Khoy County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. Occupied since Median times, it shares a long history as an important Christian center.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Khoy

3 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
    Dash Aghlian Mosque

    The Dash Aghlian Mosque is a Shi'ite mosque located on Shahid Samadzadeh Street, in Khoy, in the province of West Azerbaijan, Iran. The mosque was completed in the 19th century, during the Qajar era.

    1.3 km · mosque in Khoy, Iranian national heritage site · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Hojjatieh Mosque

    The Hojjatieh Mosque is a Shi'ite mosque located in the city of Khoy, in the province of West Azerbaijan, Iran. The mosque was completed during the Qajar era.

    600 m · Iranian national heritage site · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Saint Sarkis Church

    The Saint Sarkis Church of Khoy is a medieval Armenian Apostolic church in the city of Khoy, in the province of West Azerbaijan, Iran.

    1.2 km · church in Khoy, Iranian national heritage site · Wikipedia

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Getting to Khoy

Airports
Nakhchivan (NAJ), 84 km · Tabriz (TBZ), 121 km · Zvartnots (EVN), 184 km
  • Nakhchivan → Khoy
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  • Ganja → Khoy
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Khoy

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 Khoy. 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

    139 km
  2. 02
    GyumriAM

    12 ways of moving, 47 sources

    267 km
  3. 03
    Vardzia and the Javakheti plateauGE

    12 ways of moving, 57 sources

    346 km
  4. 04
    Sheki (Şəki)AZ

    10 ways of moving, 46 sources

    351 km
  5. 05
    GoriGE

    10 ways of moving, 16 sources

    389 km

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