Abadan is a city in and the capital of Abadan County

Abadan County

Abadan County is a county in Khuzestan Province in Iran. The capital of the county is Abadan. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 275,126, in 58,870 families. The county is subdivided into two districts: the Central District and Arvandkenar District. The county has two cities: Abadan...

, Khuzestan Province

Khuzestan Province

Khuzestan Province is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. It is in the southwest of the country, bordering Iraq's Basra Province and the Persian Gulf. Its capital is Ahwaz and covers an area of 63,238 km²...

, Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

. It lies on Abadan Island

Abadan Island

Abadan Island is an island in Iran. It is the site of the city of Abadan. The island hosted Anglo-Iranian Oil Company's Abadan Refinary, around which Mohammad Mossadegh's nationalization movement was centered.-See also:...

 (68 km (42.3 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

Bahmanshir

The Bahmanshir channel is a secondary estuary of the Karun River that parallels the Arvand Rud/Shatt al-Arab waterway on the far side of the Abadan Island for 70 miles, emptying into the Persian Gulf....

 outlet of the Karun River), 53 kilometres (32.9 mi) from the Persian Gulf

Persian Gulf

The Persian Gulf, in Southwest Asia, is an extension of the Indian Ocean located between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula.The Persian Gulf was the focus of the 1980–1988 Iran-Iraq War, in which each side attacked the other's oil tankers...

, near the Iraqi-Iran border. The civilian population of the city dropped to near zero during the eight-years Iran–Iraq War.