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: “Ahvâz”, “Ahvāz”, “Ahwaz”, “Ahwāz”, “Al-Ahvaz”, “Bandar Nāsirī”, “Bandar-e Nāşer”, “Nāşerī”, and “Nāsiri”
Photo: درفش کاویانی, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ahvaz railway station and Pol Siah.

Railway station
Photo: Chrisrabinson, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is located in Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province. The station is owned by IRI Railway. This is the oldest of the two railway stations in the city of Ahvaz, with the other one being Karun railway station.

Bridge
Photo: Sajjadsoroosh, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, also known as Pol-e Pirouzi, is a railway bridge over the river in Ahvaz, in the Iranian province of . Built during the reign of Reza Shah, it carries a single railway track with a footway on either side and is the oldest modern bridge in the city.

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
United Nations Location Code
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: “أحواز”
  • Arabic: “أهواز”
  • Arabic: “إقليم الأهواز”
  • Arabic: “احواز”
  • Arabic: “الأحــواز”
  • Arabic: “الأحـواز”
  • Arabic: “الأهواز”
  • Arabic: “الاحواز”
  • Arabic: “الاهواز”
  • Arabic: “اهواز”
  • Arabic: “مدن الأحواز”
  • Arabic: “مدينة الأحواز”
  • Arabic: “مدينة الأهواز”
  • Arabic: “مدينة الاهواز”
  • Armenian: “Ախվազ”
  • Armenian: “Ահվազ”
  • Avaric: “АхӀваз”
  • Azerbaijani: “Əhvaz”
  • Basque: “Ahwaz”
  • Belarusian: “Ахваз”
  • Bengali: “আহওয়াজ”
  • Bengali: “আহবাজ”
  • Bulgarian: “Ахваз”
  • Catalan: “Ahvaz”
  • Catalan: “Ahwaz”
  • Catalan: “Al-Ahwaz”
  • Cebuano: “Ahvaz”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئەھواز”
  • Chechen: “Ахваз”
  • Chinese: “Ahvaz”
  • Chinese: “阿瓦兹”
  • Chinese: “阿瓦士”
  • Chinese: “阿華士”
  • Croatian: “Ahvaz”
  • Czech: “Ahváz”
  • Danish: “Ahvaz”
  • Danish: “Ahwaz”
  • Dutch: “Ahvaz”
  • Dutch: “Ahwaz”
  • Dutch: “Al-Ahwaz”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “احواز”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الاحواز”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الاهواز”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اهواز”
  • Esperanto: “Ahvazo”
  • Estonian: “Ahvaz”
  • Estonian: “Ahvāz”
  • Finnish: “Ahvaz”
  • Finnish: “Ahvāz”
  • Finnish: “Ahwaz”
  • French: “Ahvaz”
  • French: “Ahwaz”
  • Galician: “Ahvaz”
  • Galician: “اهواز”
  • Georgian: “ახვაზი”
  • Georgian: “აჰვაზი”
  • German: “Ahvâs”
  • German: “Ahvaz”
  • German: “Ahwas”
  • Greek: “Αχβάζ”
  • Hausa: “Ahvaz”
  • Hebrew: “אהואז”
  • Hebrew: “אהוואז”
  • Hebrew: “אהווז”
  • Hindi: “अहवाज़”
  • Hungarian: “Ahváz”
  • Indonesian: “Ahvaz”
  • Indonesian: “Ahwaz”
  • Irish: “Ahvaz”
  • Italian: “Ahvaz”
  • Italian: “Ahwaz”
  • Japanese: “アフヴァーズ”
  • Japanese: “アフワズ”
  • 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: “Achvazas”
  • 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: “Ahvaz”
  • Northern Frisian: “Ahwaaz”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ahvaz”
  • Norwegian: “Ahvaz”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ࡀࡄࡅࡀࡆ”
  • Ossetian: “Ахваз”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਹਵਾਜ਼”
  • Persian: “اهواز”
  • Persian: “تاریانا”
  • Persian: “داراوشیر”
  • Persian: “کلانشهر اهواز”
  • Persian: “هرمزد اردشیر”
  • Polish: “Ahwaz”
  • Portuguese: “Ahvaz”
  • Portuguese: “Avaz”
  • Quechua: “Ahvaz”
  • Quechua: “Ahvāz”
  • Quechua: “Ahwad”
  • Romanian: “Ahvaz”
  • Russian: “Ахваз”
  • Russian: “Ахвас”
  • Scots: “Ahvaz”
  • Serbian: “Ахваз”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ahvaz”
  • Silesian: “Ahwaz”
  • Slovenian: “Ahvaz”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اهواز”
  • Spanish: “Ahvad”
  • Spanish: “Ahvaz”
  • Spanish: “Ahvāz”
  • Spanish: “Ahwad”
  • Spanish: “Ahwaz”
  • Swedish: “Ahvaz”
  • Tagalog: “Ahvaz”
  • Tagalog: “Ahwaz”
  • 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”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ahwaz”
  • Western Panjabi: “اہواز”
  • Wolof: “Ahvaz”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿瓦士”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿華士”

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