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Abadan
(
Persie
:
??????
,
Arabic:
??????, also
Romanized
as
?b?d?n
)
[1]
is a ceety in an the caipital o
Abadan Coonty
,
Khuzestan Province
, Iran. It lees on
Abadan Island
(68 km or 42 mi lang, 3?19 km or 2?12 miles wide, the island is boondit in the wast bi the
Arvand
watterwa an tae the east bi the
Bahmanshir
ootlet o the
Karun River
), 53 kilometre (33 mi) frae the
Persie Guwf
,
[2]
near the Iraqi-Iran border. The civilian population o the ceety droppit tae near zero durin the aicht-years
Iran?Iraq War
. As o the 1986 census due tae the war the population droppit tae anerlie 6 fowk. In 1992, anerlie 84,774 haed returned tae live in the ceety. Bi 2001, the population haed jumpit tae 206,073, an it wis 217,988, in 48,061 faimilies, accordin tae 2006 census.
[3]
Abadan Refinery
is ane o the lairgest in the warld.
- Hoiberg, Dale H., ed. (2010). "?b?d?n".
Encyclopædia Britannica
. 1: A-ak Bayes (15th ed.). Chicago, IL: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. pp. 6?7.
ISBN
0-85229-961-3
.
LCCN
2002113989
.
CS1 maint: ref=harv (
link
)
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