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Abadan (Persian: آبادان) is a city of 230,000 people (2016) in Khuzestan, in southwest Iran. It is a port city and an oil refining center. During the 1980 Iran-Iraq war, the city was emptied of people and heavily damaged.
Abadan (Persian: آبادان Ābādān) is a city and capital of Abadan County, Khuzestan Province, which is located in southwest Iran. It lies on Abadan Island (68 km or 42 mi long, 3-19 km or 2-12 miles wide). The island is bounded in the west by the Arvand waterway and to the east by the Bahmanshir outlet of the Karun River (the Arvand Rood), 53 kilometers (33 mi) from the Persian Gulf, near the Iran-Iraq border. Abadan is 140 km from the provincial capital city of Ahvaz.