The Central District of Mahshahr County ( fa, بخش مرکزی شهرستان ماهشهر) 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 ...
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Mahshahr County
Mahshahr County ( fa, شهرستان ماهشهر) is located in Khuzestan province, Khuzestan province, Iran. The capital of the county is Bandar-e Mahshahr. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 247,804, in 53,347 households. Retriev ...
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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 179,804, in 38,469 families.
The district has two cities:
Bandar-e Mahshahr
Bandar-e Mahshahr ( fa, بندرماهشهر) is a city and capital of Mahshahr County, Khuzestan Province, Iran.
Mahshahr has two universities. Islamic Azad University of Mahshahr and Amirkabir University of Technology, Mahshahr campus. Both uni ...
and
Chamran. The district has one
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Rural districts were a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of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 ...
(''dehestan''):
Jarahi Rural District
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Bandar-e Mahshahr is an ancient city and port in the Khuzestan province in south-western Iran. Originally known as Reyshahr and then Machuleh, it eventually came to be known as Bandar-e Ma'shoor. The name changed again in 1965, this time to Bandar-e Mah Shahr. The word Mah-shahr is Persian and means "city of the moon".
References
https://web.archive.org/web/20180214014508/https://www.discoverworld.com/Iran/Khuzestan-Province/Bandar-e-Mahshahr
Mahshahr County
Districts of Khuzestan Province
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