Middle East
Iran
Khuzestan

Abadan

Abadan is a city of 230,000 people in , in the southwest of Iran. It is a port city and oil refining center. During the 1980 Iran-Iraq war, the city was emptied of people and heavily damaged.
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  • Type: City with 231,000 residents
  • Description: city in Khuzestan Province, Iran
  • Also known as: “Ābadān”, “Ābādān”, “Abadan, Iran”, and “آپادانا”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Abadan International Airport.

Aerodrome
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is situated 12 kilometres away from the city of Abadan, .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Minooshahr.

Town
Minushahr is a city in, and the capital of, Minu District of Khorramshahr County, province, . It also serves as the administrative center for Jazireh-ye Minu Rural District.

Abadan

Latitude
30.3636° or 30° 21′ 49″ north
Longitude
48.2591° or 48° 15′ 33″ east
Population
231,000
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
IATA airport code
ABD
United Nations Location Code
IR ABD
Open location code
8H2C9775+CM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 32826329
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
145459
Wiki­data ID
Q63049
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Abadan” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Abadan”
  • Arabic: “آبادان”
  • Arabic: “عبادان”
  • Arabic: “عبدان”
  • Arabic: “ميناء عبادان”
  • Armenian: “Աբադան”
  • Azerbaijani: “Abadan”
  • Basque: “Abadan”
  • Belarusian: “Абадан”
  • Bengali: “অ্যাবাডান”
  • Bulgarian: “Абадан”
  • Catalan: “Abadan”
  • Catalan: “Abbadan”
  • Cebuano: “Abadan”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئابادان”
  • Chechen: “Абадан”
  • Chinese: “Abadan”
  • Chinese: “提罗卢和国”
  • Chinese: “阿巴丹”
  • Chuvash: “Абадан”
  • Corsican: “Abadan”
  • Croatian: “Abadan”
  • Czech: “Abadán”
  • Czech: “Ábádán”
  • Danish: “Abadan”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Abadan”
  • Dutch: “Abadan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ابادان”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “عبادان”
  • Esperanto: “Abadano”
  • Esperanto: “Abdano”
  • Estonian: “Ābādān”
  • Finnish: “Abadan”
  • Finnish: “Abbadan”
  • French: “Abadan”
  • Galician: “Abadán - آبادان”
  • Galician: “Abadán”
  • Georgian: “აბადანი”
  • German: “Abadan”
  • Greek: “Αμπαντάν”
  • Gujarati: “અબાદાન”
  • Hebrew: “אבאדאן”
  • Hebrew: “אבאדן”
  • Hebrew: “אבדאן”
  • Hebrew: “אבדן”
  • Hebrew: “עבדן”
  • Hindi: “अबादान”
  • Hungarian: “Ábádán”
  • Indonesian: “Abadan”
  • Irish: “Abadan”
  • Italian: “Abadan”
  • Japanese: “アーバーダーン”
  • Japanese: “アバダーン”
  • Japanese: “アバダン”
  • Kannada: “ಅಬಾದಾನ್”
  • Korean: “아바단”
  • Kurdish: “Abadan”
  • Latvian: “Abadan”
  • Latvian: “Abadana”
  • Latvian: “Abadāna”
  • Latvian: “Ābadāna”
  • Lithuanian: “Abadanas”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Abadan”
  • Malagasy: “Abadan, Iran”
  • Malagasy: “Abadan”
  • Malay: “Abadan”
  • Marathi: “अबाडान”
  • Mazanderani: “آبادان”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Abadan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Abadan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Abadan”
  • Norwegian: “Abadan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Abadan”
  • Ossetian: “Абадан”
  • Panjabi: “ਆਬਾਦਾਨ”
  • Persian: “Ābādān”
  • Persian: “آبادان”
  • Persian: “ابادان”
  • Persian: “عبادان”
  • Persian: “مسجد رانگونی‌ها”
  • Polish: “Abadan”
  • Portuguese: “Abadã”
  • Portuguese: “Abadan”
  • Romanian: “Abadan, Iran”
  • Romanian: “Abadan”
  • Russian: “Абадан”
  • Scots: “Abadan”
  • Serbian: “Абадан”
  • Serbian: “آبادان”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Abadan”
  • Sinhala: “අබාඩන්”
  • Slovak: “Abadan”
  • Slovak: “Ábádán”
  • Slovenian: “Abadan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آبادان”
  • Spanish: “A ba da n”
  • Spanish: “A ba da-n”
  • Spanish: “A ba-da-n”
  • Spanish: “A-ba-da-n”
  • Spanish: “Abadan”
  • Spanish: “Abadán”
  • Spanish: “Abadān”
  • Spanish: “Abādān”
  • Spanish: “Ābadan”
  • Spanish: “Ābadān”
  • Spanish: “Ābādān”
  • Swedish: “Abada’n”
  • Swedish: “Abadan”
  • Tagalog: “Abadan, Iran”
  • Tagalog: “Abadan”
  • Tajik: “Ободон”
  • Tamil: “அபாண்டன்”
  • Tamil: “ஆவாதான், ஈரான்”
  • Tatar: “Абадан”
  • Telugu: “అబాదన్”
  • Thai: “อบาดาน”
  • Thai: “ออบอดอน”
  • Turkish: “Abadan”
  • Uighur: “ئابادان”
  • Ukrainian: “Абадан”
  • Urdu: “آبادان”
  • Uzbek: “Obodon”
  • Venetian: “Abadan”
  • Vietnamese: “Abadan, Iran”
  • Vietnamese: “Abadan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Abadan, Iran”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Abadan”
  • Welsh: “Abadan”
  • Western Armenian: “Ապատան”
  • Western Panjabi: “آبادان”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿巴丹”

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