Qaraqala
Qaraqala is a village and municipality in the Babek District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan.
Qaraqala is a village and municipality in the Babek District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located 15 km in the north from the district center, on the plain. Its population is busy with grain-growing, gardining, poultry and animal husbandry. There are secondary school, club, library, mosque and a medical center in the village. It has a population of 568.
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Worth seeing in and around Qaraqala
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.
- 01Uçan ağıl
Uçan ağıl is an archaeological site north of Sirab village in Babek District of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Azerbaijan. It is located at the altitude of 1200 m a.s.l.
3.3 km · archaeological site in Azerbaijan · Wikipedia - 02St. Hripsime Church
St. Hripsime Church was an Armenian church located in the village of Kultepe of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan.
2.4 km · Armenian church in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan · Wikipedia
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Getting to Qaraqala
- Airports
- Nakhchivan (NAJ), 11 km · Zvartnots (EVN), 132 km · Tabriz (TBZ), 145 km
- Ganja → QaraqalaTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Baku → QaraqalaTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Yerevan → QaraqalaTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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No local-transport research exists yet for Qaraqala
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 Qaraqala. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inMinibuses depart from the tiny bus station in front of the airport, just across the parking lot.
- Get inFare is 0.30 manat for travel in town, almost all of them will stop at the long distance bus terminal (Avtovagzal) in the north of town, where one can catch also minibuses to other parts of the enclave.
- Get inTaxi to Nakhchivan City outside the immigration building: Private taxi: 15 manat (2017) Shared taxi: 3 manat per person (2017) Minibus to Nakhchivan City: 1 manat from the bus terminal in the center of town (2019) 10 minutes walk from the immigration building.
- Get aroundIt is easy to catch minibuses to every village in Nakhchivan from the main bus station (Avtovagzal) in Nakhchican City.
- Get aroundDrivers as well as other passengers are extremely helpful and will go out of their way to help you find the right minibus for you, sometimes by calling an English speaking friend who will translate for you.
From Wikivoyage: Nakhchivan (region), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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