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City in East Azerbaijan province, Iran

Leylān

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

Leylān
Leylān · U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Haiden Morris
The place

Leylan is a city in the Central District of Leylan County, East Azerbaijan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. It was the administrative center for Leylan Rural District until its capital was transferred to the village of Turchi. The village of Leylan was converted to a city in 1997.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Leylān

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
    Ganzak

    Ganzak is an ancient town founded in northwestern Iran. The city stood somewhere south of Lake Urmia, and it has been postulated that the Persian nobleman Atropates chose the city as his capital.

    1.1 km · ancient town founded in northwestern Iran located south of Lake Urmia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Bakhtak Castle

    Bakhtak Leylan Castle is a historical castle located in Malekan County in East Azerbaijan Province, The longevity of this fortress dates back to the Prehistoric times of ancient Iran.

    1.1 km · castle in Leylan, Iranian national heritage site · 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.

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Getting to Leylān

Airports
Tabriz (TBZ), 125 km · Erbil (EBL), 219 km · Kirkuk (KIK), 239 km
  • Tabriz → Leylān
    119 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · $13–18
  • Tehran → Leylān
    489 km · quickest by road, 9h 43m · $50–70
  • Karaj → Leylān
    448 km · quickest by road, 9h · $48–65
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Leylān

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 Leylān. 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

    315 km
  2. 02
    GyumriAM

    12 ways of moving, 47 sources

    467 km
  3. 03
    Sheki (Şəki)AZ

    10 ways of moving, 46 sources

    474 km
  4. 04
    Vardzia and the Javakheti plateauGE

    12 ways of moving, 57 sources

    547 km
  5. 05
    GoriGE

    10 ways of moving, 16 sources

    581 km

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

Around it

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