Abadan
Abadan is a city of 230,000 people in Khuzestan, 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.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: City with 231,000 residents
- Description: city in Khuzestan Province, Iran
- Also known as: “A ba da n”, “A ba da-n”, “A ba-da-n”, “A-ba-da-n”, “Abada’n”, “Abadān”, “Abādān”, “Ābadan”, “Ābadān”, “Ābādān”, “Abadan, Iran”, “Abadana”, “Abbadan”, “Abdano”, “אבאדן”, “אבדאן”, “אבדן”, “آپادانا”, “عبدان”, “مسجد رانگونیها”, “ميناء عبادان”, “アバダン”, and “提罗卢和国”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Abadan International Airport.
Abadan International Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Minushahr.
Abadan
- Categories: city of Iran, big city, port city, and locality
- Location: Khuzestan, Iran, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
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
UN/LOCODE
IR ABD
Open location code
8H2C9775+CM
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Abadan” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Abadan”
- Arabic: “عبادان”
- Armenian: “Աբադան”
- Azerbaijani: “Abadan”
- Basque: “Abadan”
- Belarusian: “Абадан”
- Bengali: “অ্যাবাডান”
- Bulgarian: “Абадан”
- Catalan: “Abadan”
- Cebuano: “Abadan”
- Central Kurdish: “ئابادان”
- Chechen: “Абадан”
- Chinese: “阿巴丹”
- Chuvash: “Абадан”
- Corsican: “Abadan”
- Croatian: “Abadan”
- Czech: “Ábádán”
- Danish: “Abadan”
- Dimli (individual language): “Abadan”
- Dutch: “Abadan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ابادان”
- Esperanto: “Abadano”
- Estonian: “Ābādān”
- Finnish: “Abadan”
- French: “Abadan”
- Galician: “Abadán - آبادان”
- Galician: “Abadán”
- Georgian: “აბადანი”
- German: “Abadan”
- Greek: “Αμπαντάν”
- Gujarati: “અબાદાન”
- Hebrew: “אבאדאן”
- Hindi: “अबादान”
- Hungarian: “Ábádán”
- Indonesian: “Abadan”
- Irish: “Abadan”
- Italian: “Abadan”
- Japanese: “アーバーダーン”
- Japanese: “アバダーン”
- Kannada: “ಅಬಾದನ್”
- Kannada: “ಅಬಾದಾನ್”
- Korean: “아바단”
- Kurdish: “Abadan”
- 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”
- Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928): “عبادان”
- Panjabi: “ਆਬਾਦਾਨ”
- Persian: “Ābādān”
- Persian: “آبادان”
- Polish: “Abadan”
- Portuguese: “Abadã”
- Portuguese: “Abadan”
- Romanian: “Abadan, Iran”
- Romanian: “Abadan”
- Russian: “Абадан”
- Scots: “Abadan”
- Serbian: “Абадан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Abadan”
- Sinhala: “අබාඩන්”
- Slovak: “Ábádán”
- Slovenian: “Abadan”
- South Azerbaijani: “آبادان”
- Spanish: “Abadán”
- 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، ایران”
- 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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