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City in West Azerbaijan province, Iran

# Takāb

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

![Takāb](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Takhte_Soleyman.jpg)

Takāb · Wikimedia Commons

The place

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

Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takab), CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

## Worth seeing in and around Takāb

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. Jameh Mosque of Takab The Jāmeh Mosque of Takab is a Shi'ite Friday mosque located on Imam Khomeini Street in Takab, in the province of West Azerbaijan, Iran. The mosque was completed during the Qajar era. 100 m · Iranian national heritage site · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jameh_Mosque_of_Takab)

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.

See

## What Wikivoyage says to see

1. Takht-e Soleyman Once a fire temple of Zoroastrians, this archaeological site had been declared World Heritage site in 2003.
2. Jameh Mosque of Takab
3. Tomb of Ayub Ansari

From [Wikivoyage: Takāb](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Takab), CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

## Getting to Takāb

**Airports:** Tabriz (TBZ), 208 km · Kirkuk (KIK), 269 km · Erbil (EBL), 284 km\

- Tabriz → Takāb Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/tabriz-to-takab) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Tabriz&to=Tak%C4%81b)
- Tehran → Takāb Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/tehran-to-takab) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Tehran&to=Tak%C4%81b)
- Karaj → Takāb Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/karaj-to-takab) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Karaj&to=Tak%C4%81b)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Tak%C4%81b)

Not yet researched

## No local-transport research exists yet for Takāb

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 Takāb. 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 405 km
2. [Sheki (Şəki)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sheki) AZ 10 ways of moving, 46 sources 534 km
3. [Gyumri](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gyumri) AM 12 ways of moving, 47 sources 564 km
4. [Vardzia and the Javakheti plateau](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vardzia) GE 12 ways of moving, 57 sources 645 km
5. [Gori](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gori) GE 10 ways of moving, 16 sources 672 km

If you know how people move in Takāb – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Ctakab&title=Tak%C4%81b&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Ftakab), and the note gets an entry.

Around it

## Next door to Takāb

- [Tamay](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tamay) village in Iran 8.8 km
- [Tasheh Kabud](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tasheh-kabud) village in Iran 9.9 km
- [Yolqun Aghaj](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/yolqun-aghaj) village in Iran 7.7 km
- [Badmahmud](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/badmahmud) village in Iran 2.7 km
- [Qojur, West Azerbaijan](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/qojur-west-azerbaijan) village in Iran 3.5 km
- [Ughul Beyg](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ughul-beyg) village in Iran 5.7 km

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