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Province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''Roman province, provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire ...

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Khuzestan 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 ...

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County A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesChambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...

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District A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions o ...

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Central Central is an adjective usually referring to being in the center of some place or (mathematical) object. Central may also refer to: Directions and generalised locations * Central Africa, a region in the centre of Africa continent, also known as ...

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IRST An infrared search and track (IRST) system (sometimes known as infrared sighting and tracking) is a method for detecting and tracking objects which give off infrared radiation, such as the infrared signatures of jet aircraft and helicopters. IR ...

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Romanize Romanization or romanisation, in linguistics, is the conversion of text from a different writing system to the Roman (Latin) script, or a system for doing so. Methods of romanization include transliteration, for representing written text, and ...

d as Şeydūn; also known as Şeydān) is a city in the Central District of Seydun County,

province,

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 ...

, and serves as capital of both the county and of the district. At the 2006 National Census, its population was 5,439 in 962 households, when it was in the former

Seydun District Seydun District ( fa, بخش صیدون) is a district (bakhsh) in Bagh-e Malek County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 22,412, in 4,012 families. The District has one city: Seydun. The District has two rural distri ...

Bagh-e Malek County Bagh-e Malek County ( fa, شهرستان باغ‌ملک) is in Khuzestan province, Iran. The capital of the county is Bagh-e Malek Bagh-e Malek ( fa, باغ‌ملک; also Romanized as Bāgh-e Malek, Bagh-i-Malik, and Bagh Malek) is a city ...

). The following census in 2011 counted 6,588 people in 1,481 households. The latest census in 2016 showed a population of 7,650 people in 1,803 households. In February 2023, the district was separated from the county in the establishment of Seydun County, which was divided into two districts of two rural districts each, with the city of

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as its capital and only city.

References

Cities in Khuzestan Province {{Khuzestan-geo-stub