Ahvaz

Ahvaz is a city in the Central District of Ahvaz County, province, , serving as capital of the province, the county, and the district. Positioned near the border with , along the banks of the Karun River, Ahvaz serves as a key industrial and transportation hub, with a diverse population and a history shaped by its proximity to and the .
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  • Type: City with 1,180,000 residents
  • Description: city in Khuzestan Province, Iran
  • Also known as: “Achvazas”, “Ahvad”, “Ahvâs”, “Ahvâz”, “Ahvāz”, “Ahwad”, “Ahwaz”, “Ahwāz”, “Al-Ahvaz”, “Al-Ahwaz”, “Bandar Nāsirī”, “Bandar-e Nāşer”, “Nāşerī”, “Nāsiri”, “Ахвас”, “ახვაზი”, “אהואז”, “אהווז”, “أحواز”, “أهواز”, “إقليم الأهواز”, “احواز”, “الأحــواز”, “الأحـواز”, “الاحواز”, “تاریانا”, “داراوشیر”, “کلانشهر اهواز”, “مدن الأحواز”, “مدينة الأحواز”, “مدينة الأهواز”, “مدينة الاهواز”, “هرمزد اردشیر”, “アフワズ”, and “阿瓦兹”
Photo: درفش کاویانی, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights: Ahvaz railway station and Pol Siah.

Railway station
Photo: Chrisrabinson, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is located in Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province.

Bridge
Photo: Sajjadsoroosh, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, also known as Pol-e Pirouzi, is a railway…

Building
Photo: فلورانس, GFDL.
is a building.

Ahvaz

Latitude
31.3231° or 31° 19′ 23″ north
Longitude
48.6793° or 48° 40′ 46″ east
Population
1,180,000
Elevation
23 metres (75 feet)
IATA airport code
AWZ
UN/LOCODE
IR AWZ
Open location code
8H3C8MFH+6P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4952774020
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
144448
Wiki­data ID
Q170366
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Ahvaz” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Ahvaz”
  • Arabic: “الأهواز”
  • Armenian: “Ախվազ”
  • Armenian: “Ահվազ”
  • Avaric: “АхӀваз”
  • Azerbaijani: “Əhvaz”
  • Basque: “Ahwaz”
  • Belarusian: “Ахваз”
  • Bengali: “আহওয়াজ”
  • Bengali: “আহবাজ”
  • Bulgarian: “Ахваз”
  • Catalan: “Ahwaz”
  • Cebuano: “Ahvaz”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئەھواز”
  • Chechen: “Ахваз”
  • Chinese: “阿瓦士”
  • Croatian: “Ahvaz”
  • Czech: “Ahváz”
  • Danish: “Ahvaz”
  • Dutch: “Ahvaz”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الاهواز”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اهواز”
  • Esperanto: “Ahvazo”
  • Estonian: “Ahvāz”
  • Finnish: “Ahvāz”
  • French: “Ahvaz”
  • Galician: “Ahvaz”
  • Georgian: “აჰვაზი”
  • German: “Ahvaz”
  • German: “Ahwas”
  • Greek: “Αχβάζ”
  • Hausa: “Ahvaz”
  • Hebrew: “אהוואז”
  • Hindi: “अहवाज़”
  • Hungarian: “Ahváz”
  • Indonesian: “Ahvaz”
  • Indonesian: “Ahwaz”
  • Irish: “Ahvaz”
  • Italian: “Ahvaz”
  • Japanese: “アフヴァーズ”
  • Kannada: “ಅಹ್ವಾಸ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Áhwaz”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Axvaz”
  • Kashmiri: “اہواز”
  • Kazakh: “Axvaz”
  • Kazakh: “Ахваз”
  • Kazakh: “احۆاز”
  • Kirghiz: “Ахваз шаары”
  • Kirghiz: “Ахваз”
  • Korean: “아바즈”
  • Kurdish: “Ehvaz”
  • Kurdish: “ئەهڤاز”
  • Latin: “Vasetum”
  • Latvian: “Ahvāza”
  • Lithuanian: “Ahvazas”
  • Malagasy: “Ahvaz”
  • Malay: “Ahvaz”
  • Malayalam: “അഹ്വാസ്”
  • Maori: “Ahvaz”
  • Mazanderani: “اهواز”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “الأهواز”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ahvaz”
  • Mingrelian: “აჰვაზი”
  • North Levantine Arabic: “الأهواز”
  • Northern Frisian: “Ahwaaz”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ahvaz”
  • Norwegian: “Ahvaz”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ࡀࡄࡅࡀࡆ”
  • Ossetian: “Ахваз”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਹਵਾਜ਼”
  • Persian: “اهواز”
  • Polish: “Ahwaz”
  • Portuguese: “Ahvaz”
  • Portuguese: “Avaz”
  • Quechua: “Ahvaz”
  • Romanian: “Ahvaz”
  • Russian: “Ахваз”
  • Scots: “Ahvaz”
  • Serbian: “Ахваз”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ahvaz”
  • Silesian: “Ahwaz”
  • Slovenian: “Ahvaz”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اهواز”
  • Spanish: “Ahvaz”
  • Swedish: “Ahvaz”
  • Tagalog: “Ahvaz”
  • Tajik: “Ahvoz”
  • Tajik: “Аҳвоз”
  • Tamil: “அகுவாசு”
  • Tamil: “ஆக்வாசு”
  • Tatar: “Әһваз”
  • Thai: “แอฮ์วอซ”
  • Tibetan: “ཨཱ་ཝཛ།”
  • Turkish: “Ahvaz”
  • Turkmen: “Ahwaz”
  • Ukrainian: “Ахваз”
  • Urdu: “اہواز”
  • Uzbek: “Ahvoz”
  • Venetian: “Ahvaz”
  • Vietnamese: “Ahvaz”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ahvaz”
  • Western Panjabi: “اہواز”
  • Wolof: “Ahvaz”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿瓦士”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿華士”

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