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Māhdāsht

Mahdasht is a city in the Central District of Karaj County, Alborz province, Iran.

Māhdāsht
Māhdāsht · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Mahdasht is a city in the Central District of Karaj County, Alborz province, Iran. The village of Mardabad was converted to the city of Mahdasht in 1991.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Māhdāsht

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. 01
    Pearl Palace

    Pearl Palace, also known as Shams Palace is an estate in Iran, designed by Taliesin Associated Architects on instructions from princess Shams Pahlavi, elder sister of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran. It was built in the early 1970s and is located in the Mehrshahr neighborhood, in Karaj City, Iran.

    9.7 km · palace in Karaj, 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 Māhdāsht

Airports
Payam (PYK), 6 km · Mehrabad (THR), 46 km · Imam Khomeini (IKA), 47 km
Stations
Payam International Airport, 5.6 km
  • Tehran → Māhdāsht
    55 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · $5–7
  • Isfahan → Māhdāsht
    351 km · quickest by air, 4h 42m · $170–250
  • Tabriz → Māhdāsht
    480 km · quickest by air, 4h 8m · $140–220
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Māhdāsht

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 Māhdāsht. 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

    658 km
  2. 02
    Sheki (Şəki)AZ

    10 ways of moving, 46 sources

    686 km
  3. 03
    GyumriAM

    12 ways of moving, 47 sources

    828 km
  4. 04
    GoriGE

    10 ways of moving, 16 sources

    905 km
  5. 05
    Vardzia and the Javakheti plateauGE

    12 ways of moving, 57 sources

    907 km

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

Around it

Next door to Māhdāsht

Māhdāsht is 20 km from Karaj, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.