Bandar-e Imam Khomeini

Related Category: Iranian Political Geography

(bän´där-ā ē´mäm khō´´mānē´), town (1991 est. pop. 56,998), Khuzestan prov., SW Iran, a port at the head of the Persian Gulf. It is the southern terminus of the Trans-Iranian Railway, which runs to the Caspian Sea. The town was formerly known as Bandar-e Shahpur.