Abadan (film) is also the name of a 2003 Iranian movie from director
Mani Haghighi, as well as the name of a
town in Turkmenistan Abadan is a city in the
Khuzestan province in southwestern
Iran (
Persia). It lies on Abadan Island (68 km long, 3-19 km wide, the island is bounded in the west by the
Shatt al-Arab river and to the east by the Bahmanshir outlet of the
Karun River), on the Shatt al-Arab river 53 kilometers from the
Persian Gulf, near the Iraqi-Iran border. It is the capital of
Abadan County. In 2005, the population was estimated to be at 415,139. The civilian population of the city dropped to near zero during the eight-years Iran-Iraq war. In 1992, only 84,774 had returned to live in the city. By 2001, the population had jumped to 206,073, only to double in the past five years.
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