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

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

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, 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 Persian-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 apparent solar time), the air temperature measured at the Bandar-e Mahshahr airport was , the

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was , and the