City
Bandar Abbas
Southern Asia
Bandar Abbas is a port city on the southern coast of Iran at the narrow Strait of Hormuz, directly across from the Musandam Governorate of Oman, serving as capital of Hormozgan province, its county and district. The 2016 census recorded 526,664 residents. The city has been a port since at least 600 BC and was known at various times as Gamrun and Gombroon under Portuguese, Dutch and English control before Shah Abbas the Great renamed it in the seventeenth century. It remains strategically important today as the location of the main base and headquarters of the Iranian Navy and as a historic commercial link to India.
Facts
Founding Year Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Bandar Abbas (Wikidata)
P1082 (population)Quote, P1082 (population)
population 526,648 (2016)
2. Bandar Abbas (Wikipedia)
Infobox: established_date
prior to 600 BC
Infobox: elevation_m
9
- In Group: Cities of Southern Asia (World), Wikipedia lead / Wikidata P17, confirms city and country
View the Source3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 27.25, 56.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 27.25, 56.25
27.25 56.25 BWh
4. GeoNames: Bandar Abbas - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 141681, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)Quote, cities500 record 141681, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
27.1865 56.2808 P PPLA IR 11 352173 9 Asia/Tehran
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