Abadan (Persian: آبادان Ābādān, pronounced [ʔɒːbɒːˈdɒːn]) is a city and capital of Abadan County, Khuzestan Province, which is located in the southwest of 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 kilometres (33 mi) from the Persian Gulf, near the Iran–Iraq border. Abadan is 140 km from the provincial capital city of Ahvaz.
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| Name | Since | Distance | |||
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| Al-Qurain Martyrs Museum | 2019 | 129.7km | site_ao | ||
| Tareq Rajab Museum of Islamic Calligraphy | 2019 | 117.2km | site_ao | ||
| ‘Highway of Death’ | 2019 | 63.4km | site_ao | ||
| Failaka Island | 2019 | 101.1km | site_ao | ||
Kuwait Water Towers  | 2019 | 110.1km | site_ao | ||
| Souq Al-Muttaheda / Souq Al-Maseel | 1973 | 112.8km | site_brutalism | ||
| Water Towers | 1965 | 117km | site_brutalism | ||
| Girl’s School | 116.4km | site_brutalism | |||
| The Ahwar of Southern Iraq: Refuge of Biodiversity and the Relict Landscape of the Mesopotamian Cities | 2016 | 148.1km | site_whs |
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