--- title: "Abadan – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Abadan, Iran: Abadan is a city in the Central District of Abadan County, Khuzestan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/abadan" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/abadan.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Rengoonie%27s_Mosque_1.jpg/3840px-Rengoonie%27s_Mosque_1.jpg" --- City in Khuzestan province, Iran # Abadan Abadan is a city in the Central District of Abadan County, Khuzestan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. ![Abadan](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Rengoonie%27s_Mosque_1.jpg/3840px-Rengoonie%27s_Mosque_1.jpg) Abadan · Wikimedia Commons The place Abadan is a city in the Central District of Abadan County, Khuzestan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. The city is in the southwest of the county. It lies on Abadan Island. The island is bounded in the west by the Arvand waterway and to the east by the Bahmanshir outlet of the Karun River, 53 kilometres (33 mi) from the Persian Gulf, near the Iran–Iraq border. Abadan is 140 km from the provincial capital city of Ahvaz. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abadan%2C_Iran), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Abadan 5 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. 1. Rangooniha Mosque The Ranguniha Mosque, also spelled as the Rangooniha Mosque, is a former Sunni mosque, now history museum, located on the banks of the Arvand River, in the city of Abadan in Abadan County, in the province of Khuzestan, Iran. The mosque was completed in 1920, during the Qajar and Pahlavi eras. 1.4 km · Iranian national heritage site · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranguniha_Mosque) 2. Saint Karapet Church Saint Garapet Church is a 20th century Armenian church in Abadan, Iran. The church was constructed in 1940 and was the largest place of gathering for the Armenian community in Abadan at the time, however due to the low population of Armenians in the city, it is no longer operational. 1.3 km · church in Abadan, Iranian national heritage site · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Garapet_Church,_Abadan) 3. Takhti Stadium (Abadan) The Abadan Takhti Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium built in Abadan, Khuzestan province, Iran. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Sanat Naft Abadan F.C. who play in the Persian Gulf Pro League. 1.3 km · stadium in Abadan, Iran · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takhti_Stadium_(Abadan%29) 4. Abadan building collapse On 23 May 2022, the Metropol building, a ten-story residential and commercial building in Abadan, Iran, collapsed while under construction. As of 6 June 2022, at least 41 people had died and 37 others were injured in the incident, according to Iranian state media. 1.6 km · 2022 building collapse in Abadan, Iran · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abadan_building_collapse) 5. Abadan University of Medical Sciences Abadan University of Medical Sciences is a public medical university located in Abadan, Khuzestan Province in central-west Iran near the Iraqi–Iran border. Established in September 1941 by the Ministry of Health and Medical Education as the country's first Nursing Faculty, it evolved through successive upgrades and on June 22, 2021 was formally transformed into an independent medical university. 3 km · University in Khuzestan, Iran · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abadan_University_of_Medical_Sciences) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Abadan **Airports:** Abadan Ayatollah Jami (ABD), 6 km · Basra (BSR), 64 km · Qasem Soleimani (AWZ), 119 km\ **Stations:** Abadan International Airport, 5.9 km\ - Ahvaz → Abadan 115 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · $10–13 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/ahvaz-to-abadan) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Ahvaz&to=Abadan) - Shiraz → Abadan 415 km · quickest by air, 3h 36m · $160–230 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/shiraz-to-abadan) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Shiraz&to=Abadan) - Isfahan → Abadan 410 km · quickest by road, 8h 37m · $50–70 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/isfahan-to-abadan) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Isfahan&to=Abadan) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Abadan) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Abadan 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 Abadan. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in There are river ferries from Basra, in Iraq, to nearby Khorramshahr several times per week. - Get in The ferry is run by Valfajr Shipping Company and journey time is just under one hour. From [Wikivoyage: Abadan](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Abadan), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Yeghegnadzor and the Vayots Dzor valley](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/yeghegnadzor) AM 9 ways of moving, 32 sources 1,081 km 2. [Sheki (Şəki)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sheki) AZ 10 ways of moving, 46 sources 1,211 km 3. [Gyumri](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gyumri) AM 12 ways of moving, 47 sources 1,228 km 4. [Petra and Wadi Musa](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/petra) JO 12 ways of moving, 17 sources 1,229 km 5. [Wadi Rum](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/wadi-rum) JO 8 ways of moving, 23 sources 1,241 km If you know how people move in Abadan – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cabadan&title=Abadan&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fabadan), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Abadan Abadan is 14 km from [Khorramshahr](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/khorramshahr), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Minushahr](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/minushahr) city in Khuzestan Province, Iran 6.3 km - [Gheysiyeh](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gheysiyeh) village in Iran 6.5 km - [Khoreybeh](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/khoreybeh) village in Iran 6.1 km - [Albuebadi](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/albuebadi) village in Iran 6.8 km - [Fayazi](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/fayazi) village in Iran 8.4 km - [Kher Khereh](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kher-khereh) village in Iran 2.9 km [The place page for Abadan](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/abadan) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Iran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-IR) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/abadan, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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