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Village in West Azerbaijan province, Iran

# Tumatar

Tumatar is a village in Baranduzchay-ye Jonubi Rural District of the Central District in Urmia County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran.

The place

Tumatar is a village in Baranduzchay-ye Jonubi Rural District of the Central District in Urmia County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran. The village has at least one Armenian church.

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

What is there

## Worth seeing in and around Tumatar

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. Dimdim Castle Dimdim Castle was a Kurdish fortress located on top of Mount Dimdim in West Azerbaijan Province of Iran, just west of Lake Urmia. This fortress was the location of the Battle of Dimdim. 2.4 km · Kurdish fortress · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimdim_Castle)

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.

Go there

## Getting to Tumatar

**Airports:** Tabriz (TBZ), 126 km · Erbil (EBL), 167 km · Nakhchivan (NAJ), 203 km\

- Tabriz → Tumatar 126 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · $13–18 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/tabriz-to-tumatar) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Tabriz&to=Tumatar)
- Tehran → Tumatar 590 km · quickest by air, 4h 21m · $200–300 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/tehran-to-tumatar) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Tehran&to=Tumatar)
- Karaj → Tumatar 548 km · quickest by road, 8h 57m · $60–80 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/karaj-to-tumatar) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Karaj&to=Tumatar)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Tumatar)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

## No local-transport research exists yet for Tumatar

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 Tumatar. 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 265 km
2. [Gyumri](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gyumri) AM 12 ways of moving, 47 sources 396 km
3. [Sheki (Şəki)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sheki) AZ 10 ways of moving, 46 sources 459 km
4. [Vardzia and the Javakheti plateau](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vardzia) GE 12 ways of moving, 57 sources 473 km
5. [Gori](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gori) GE 10 ways of moving, 16 sources 520 km

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

Around it

## Next door to Tumatar

Tumatar is 21 km from [Orūmīyeh](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/orumiyeh), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

- [Goldanlu](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/goldanlu) village in Iran 3.9 km
- [Nivlu](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/nivlu) village in Iran 3.8 km
- [Uzan Malek](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/uzan-malek) village in Iran 500 m
- [Bozorgabad](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bozorgabad) village in Iran 3.5 km
- [Kukiya](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kukiya) village in Iran 1.5 km
- [Balanej](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/balanej) village in Iran 1.9 km

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