Khorramshahr
Khorramshahr is a city in the Central District of Khorramshahr County, Khuzestan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.
Khorramshahr is a city in the Central District of Khorramshahr County, Khuzestan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.
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Worth seeing in and around Khorramshahr
3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Jameh Mosque of Khorramshahr
The Jameh Mosque of Khorramshahr, also known as the Khorramshahr Central Mosque, is a Shi'ite Friday mosque, located in Khorramshahr city, within Khorramshahr County of the province of Khuzestan, Iran.
400 m · mosque in Khorramshahr, Iranian national heritage site · Wikipedia - 02Skill National University
The National University of Skills formerly known as the Technical and Vocational University, is a state comprehensive university, affiliated to Ministry of Science Research and Technology of Iran. NUS headquarters is based in Tehran, Iran, and it manages more than 180 branches across the country.
2.3 km · university in Iran · Wikipedia - 03Arvandan Stadium
The Arvandan Stadium is a stadium in Khorramshahr, Iran. It is currently used for football matches.
3.9 km · Football stadium in Iran · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Warfare Museum
Museum dedicated to events during the Iran-Iraq War and specifically the Battle of Khorramshahr in 1980.
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Getting to Khorramshahr
- Airports
- Abadan Ayatollah Jami (ABD), 9 km · Basra (BSR), 51 km · Qasem Soleimani (AWZ), 114 km
- Stations
- Abadan International Airport, 8.8 km
- Ahvaz → Khorramshahr109 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · $10–14
- Isfahan → Khorramshahr412 km · quickest by air, 6h 50m · $190–280
- Shiraz → Khorramshahr429 km · quickest by air, 4h 15m · $150–230
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Khorramshahr
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Khorramshahr. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inA river ferry is available from nearby Basra, across the border in Iraq, taking just 45 minutes to complete the journey.
- Get inThe ferry is run by Valfajr Shipping Company and there are multiple sailings each week.
From Wikivoyage: Khorramshahr, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Khorramshahr
Khorramshahr is 29 km from Abū al-Kahṣīb, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.