Khorramshahr (Persian: خرمشهر, Arabic:المُحِمرة ,also Romanized as Khorramchahre and Khurramshahr; also known as Khorram Shahr Ābādān and Khūnīn Shahr; formerly, Al-Muhammarah, Mohammerah, and Muhammerah) is a city in and the capital of Khorramshahr County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 123,866, in 26,385 families.
Khorramshahr is a port city located approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) north of Abadan. The city extends to the right bank of the Shatt al-Arab waterway near its confluence with the Haffar arm of the Karun river. The city was a ghost town in the 1986 census, because of the Iran-Iraq War but now it is a fairly big city again, as it was before the war.
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