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Būshehr (province) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 28 45 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 28.7500 decimal degrees |
| Long: 051 30 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 51.5000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Būshehr is a coastal region in the southwestern part Iran with the Persian Gulf in the west. Būshehr is surrounded by Hormozgan and Fars from southeast and east and Khuzestan on the northwest. Its landscape is dominated by the Zagros Mountains and the Shapur River provides access to the Persian Gulf. Būshehr played a major role in the trade of Persian carpets with the Europeans. This trade boomed in the 1780s and 1790s when the merchants of the English East India Company began trading this products through Bushehr. At present, the city has emerged as a major oil and natural gas terminal in Iran. The inhabitants work in the agriculture industry and produce wheat, barley, date palms, mangoes, and citrus fruits. |
Names: |
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| Būshehr (preferred,C,V,Persian-Farsi-P)
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| Būshehr, Ostān-e (C,V)
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| Ostān-e Būshehr (C,V)
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| Būshehr province (C,O)
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| Bushire (C,V)
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| Ostān-e Būshehr (C,U,O,Persian-Farsi (transliterated)-P)
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| Bushehr Province (C,U,English)
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| Bushehr Province (Scots)
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| IR22 (C,U,FIPS)
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| Xalij-e Fârs (C,U)
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| بوشِهر (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| اُستانِ بوشِهر (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| Bushehr (C,U,English)
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| Bushehr (Basque)
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| Bushehr (Italian)
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| Bushehr (Spanish)
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| Bushehr (Dutch)
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| Bushehr (Portuguese)
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| Buschehr (C,U,German)
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| Bušeherska pokrajina (C,U,Croatian)
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| Bûşehr (C,U,Kurdish)
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| Bušehr (C,U,Cebuano)
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| Búšehr (C,U,Czech)
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| Būšehr (C,U,Finnish)
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| Buşehr (C,U,Turkish)
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| Buşehr (Dimli)
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| Būšehra (C,U,Latvian)
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| Buşehr Eyaleti (C,U,Turkish)
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| Bušehro provincija (C,U,Lithuanian)
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| Buşehr ostanı (C,U,Azerbaijani)
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| Busehr tartomány (C,U,Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Būshehri provints (C,U,Estonian)
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| Buszehr (C,U,Polish)
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| Lalawigan ng Bushehr (C,U,Tagalog)
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| Province de Bouchehr (C,U,French)
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| Província de Buixehr (C,U,Catalan)
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| Provincia de Bushehr (C,U,Spanish)
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| Província de Bushehr (C,U,Portuguese)
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| Provinco Buŝehr (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Provinsi Bushehr (C,U,Indonesian)
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| Pu-sṳ̍p-ngì-sén (C,U,Chinese, Hakka)
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| Regione di Bushehr (C,U,Italian)
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| Бушер (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| Бушер (Bulgarian)
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| Бушер (Macedonian)
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| Покрајина Бушер (C,U,Serbian)
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| بوشهر (C,U,Arabic)
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| بوشهر (Persian-Farsi)
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| بوشهر (Arabic, Egyptian)
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| 부셰르 주 (C,U,Korean)
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| استان بوشهر (C,U,Gilaki)
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| استان بوشهر (Persian-Farsi)
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| बुशहर प्रांत (C,U,Hindi)
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| बुशहर प्रांत (Marathi)
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| בושהר (C,U,Hebrew )
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| ਬੁਸ਼ਹਿਰ ਸੂਬਾ (C,U,Panjabi, Eastern)
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| بۇشەھر ۋىلايىتى (C,U,Uyghur)
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| Устони Бушаҳр (C,U,Tajik)
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| صوبہ بوشہر (C,U,Urdu)
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| صوبہ بوشہر (Panjabi, Western)
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| Бушир (C,U,Russian)
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| بوشهر اوستانی (C,U,Azerbaijani, South)
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| بوشهر اوستان (C,U,Mazanderani)
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| 布什爾省 (C,U,Chinese)
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| ბუშირის ოსტანი (C,U,Georgian)
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| پارێزگای بووشەھر (C,U,Central Kurdish)
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| बुशहिर प्रान्त (C,U,Newari)
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| বুশেহর প্রদেশ (C,U,Bengali)
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| بوشهر ولايت (C,U,Pashto)
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| ブーシェフル州 (C,U,Japanese)
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| Բուշեր (C,U,Armenian)
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| Бушеһр (C,U,Kazakh)
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| Бушеҳр (C,U,Tajik)
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| Banāder va Jazāyer-e Khalīj-e Fārs va Daryā-ye 'Omān (H,V)
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............ | part of former province until mid-1970s |
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Asia (continent) (P) |
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Īrān (nation) (P) |
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Place Types: |
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| province (preferred, C) |
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| first level subdivision (C) |
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| trade center (C) |
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Sources and Contributors: |
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| Banāder va Jazāyer-e Khalīj-e Fārs va Daryā-ye 'Omān.......... |
[VP] |
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Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 674 |
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