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Temporary military fortified position

# Sangar

A sangar is a temporary fortified position with a breastwork originally constructed of stones, and now built of sandbags, gabions or similar materials.

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## Every way there

- Search from wherever you are; the planner compares train, bus, ferry, flight and road.

The field note

What is in and around Sangar, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Sangar has

- Yes Scheduled flights Rasht (RAS), 17 km as the crow flies
- No Trains and coaches no timetable feed known for this country
- No Ferries no crossing within 25 km
- Yes Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- No Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- No Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Yes: you can plan it here today · Not yet: we know a source but do not plan with it yet · No: no source we know of.

37.179°, 49.694°

Sangars are normally constructed in terrain where the digging of trenches would not be practicable. The term is still frequently used by the British Army, but has now been extended to cover a wider range of small fortified positions.

How locals move

## Getting around Sangar the local way

- Get in You can easily find shared taxis to city center, it costs around 30,000 rials.
- Get in Shared taxis (Savaris) plow the Caspian coast, so getting to Rasht from anywhere in that area is easy.
- Get in A good choice for a trip from Tehran would be a shared taxi or bus to Chalus, a spectacular route through the Alborz mountains and then a savari from Chalus to Rasht.

From [Wikivoyage: Rasht](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Rasht), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangar_(fortification%29), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Nick / from United Kingdom (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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