Abdan () is a city in, and the capital of,

Abdan District Abdan District () is in Deyr County, Bushehr province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to t ...

Deyr County Deyr County () is in Bushehr province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Bandar-e Deyr. Etymology According to some historians Deyr was named after a Jewish synagogue located in the heart of Deyr. The word Dyer is probably derived from the ...

Bushehr Bushehr (; ) is a port city in the Central District (Bushehr County), Central District of Bushehr County, Bushehr province, Bushehr province, Iran, serving as capital of the province, the county, and the district. Etymology The roots of the n ...

province,

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

. It also serves as the administrative center for Abdan Rural District. The village of Abdan was converted to a city in 2000.

Demographics

Language

Linguistic composition of the city consists of

Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...

dialects Bardesuni and Koroshi.

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 6,058 in 1,224 households, when it was in the Central District. The following census in 2011 counted 6,211 people in 1,477 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 6,827 people in 1,819 households, by which time the city had been separated from the district in the formation of

Notable people

Iranian cleric is from here.

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