Bandar-e Mahshahr ( fa, بندرماهشهر) is a city and capital of

Mahshahr County Mahshahr County ( fa, شهرستان ماهشهر) is located in Khuzestan province, Iran. The capital of the county is Bandar-e Mahshahr Bandar-e Mahshahr ( fa, بندرماهشهر) is a city and capital of Mahshahr County, Khuzestan Provin ...

Khuzestan Province Khuzestan Province (also spelled Xuzestan; fa, استان خوزستان ''Ostān-e Xūzestān'') is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. It is in the southwest of the country, bordering Iraq and the Persian Gulf. Its capital is Ahvaz and it covers ...

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. Mahshahr has two universities. Islamic Azad University of Mahshahr and

Amirkabir University of Technology Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT) ( fa, دانشگاه صنعتی امیرکبیر), also called the Tehran Polytechnic, is a public technological university located in Tehran, Iran. Founded in 1928, AUT is the second oldest technical uni ...

, Mahshahr campus. Both universities concentrate on engineering programs, especially petroleum and petrochemical engineering.

Demographics

Most of its people spoke a dialect that was a mixture of Southern Luri and Bushehri, that is still spoken by some elderly people and by younger generations mostly in rural area (the dialect though still thrives in Hendijan and especially Genaaveh). But now Mahshahrians are mainly

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-speaking. Local Persians are mostly of Behbahani, Qanavati, and Bandari families. There is also a local

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-speaking minority whose roots go back to Qabban in Iraq.

Climate

On July 31, 2015 at around 4:30 PM

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(3:10 PM

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), the air temperature measured at the Bandar-e Mahshahr airport was , the

dew point The dew point is the temperature to which air must be cooled to become saturated with water vapor, assuming constant air pressure and water content. When cooled below the dew point, moisture capacity is reduced and airborne water vapor will cond ...

was , and the

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was 49%. This corresponds to a wet-bulb temperature of , slightly below the mark that is considered the maximum humans can tolerate, above which extended exposure will lead to death.Samenow, Jason.
Iran city hits suffocating heat index of 165 degrees, near world record
. ''The Washington Post''. July 31, 2015. Together, the city had a

heat index The heat index (HI) is an index that combines air temperature and relative humidity, in shaded areas, to posit a human-perceived equivalent temperature, as how hot it would feel if the humidity were some other value in the shade. The result is als ...

of , the second highest heat index ever recorded anywhere in the world.

2019 Protests

In the 2019 Iranian fuel protests, Amnesty International confirmed that security forces killed 14 protestors in Bandar-e Mahshahr, a deathtoll higher than that of larger cities such as

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; the New York Times reports between 40 and 100 protestors were killed in Mahshahr.

Port and
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The port of Bandar-e Mahshahr is immediately adjacent to the East of the port of

Bandar-e Emam Khomeyni Bandar-e Shahpour ( fa, بندر شاهپور) is a city and capital of Bandar-e Shahpour District of Mahshahr County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. As of the 2006 census, its population was 67,078, in 14,681 families. Bandar Shahpour is a port c ...

. It is specialized in oil and petrochemical products exports. It includes a

Special economic zone A special economic zone (SEZ) is an area in which the business and trade laws are different from the rest of the country. SEZs are located within a country's national borders, and their aims include increasing trade balance, employment, increas ...

used by the

National Iranian Petrochemical Company The National Petrochemical Company (NPC) ( fa, شرکت ملی صنایع پتروشیمی, ''Shirkat-e Mili-ye Sânai'-ye Petrushimiy''), a subsidiary to the Iranian Petroleum Ministry, is owned by the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran. ...

and the National Petrochemical Company (NPC), the Special industrial economic zones 'Petzone'. The port of Bandar-e Mahshahr is mostly used by tanker ships and is accessible through the same channel as the port of

, i.e. the 42 miles long, 20 meter deep Khor Musa channel,

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