The Central District of Abadan County ( fa, بخش مرکزی شهرستان آبادان) is a district (
bakhsh
A ( fa, بخش, also romanized as ) is a third-level administrative division of Iran. While sometimes translated as "county," it is more accurately translated as "district," similar to a township in the United States or a district of En ...
) in
Abadan County
Abadan County ( fa, شهرستان آبادان) is located in Khuzestan province, Iran. The capital of the county is Abadan on Abadan Island. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 275,126, in 58,870 households. Retrieved 31 October ...
,
Khuzestan Province
Khuzestan Province (also spelled Xuzestan; fa, استان خوزستان ''Ostān-e Xūzestān'') is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. It is in the southwest of the country, bordering Iraq and the Persian Gulf. Its capital is Ahvaz and it covers ...
,
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
. At the 2006 census, its population was 250,116, in 53,940 families.
The district has two cities:
Abadan
Abadan ( fa, آبادان ''Ābādān'', ) is a city and capital of Abadan County, Khuzestan Province, which is located in the southwest of Iran. It lies on Abadan Island ( long, 3–19 km or 2–12 miles wide). The island is bounded ...
and
Chavibdeh. The district has three
rural district
Rural districts were a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of the Ad ...
s (''dehestan''):
Bahmanshir-e Jonubi Rural District,
Bahmanshir-e Shomali Rural District, and
Shalahi Rural District.
References
Abadan County
Districts of Khuzestan Province
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