Ostān-e Khūzestān (Asia / Southern Asia / Iran)

Ahvaz (Asia / Southern Asia / Iran)

The city of Ahvaz, sometimes has mistakenly transcribed as Ahwaz (Persian: اَهواز ahvāz) , is capital of the Iranian province of Khuzestan. It is built on the banks of the Karun River and is situated in the middle of the province of Khuzestan.

Kut (Asia / Western Asia / Iraq)

Kūt (كوت; also known as Kut-Al-Imara and Kut El Amara) is a city in eastern Iraq, on the left bank of the Tigris River, about 100 miles south east of Baghdad, at 32.50°N, 45.

Susa (Asia / Southern Asia / Iran)

Susa (in Persian: شوش Shush) is a city in the Khuzestan province of Iran. It had an estimated population of 64,960 in 2005.

Nasiriyah (Asia / Western Asia / Iraq)

Nāşirīyah (also transliterated as Nassiriya or Nasiriya; in Arabic الناصرية, al-Nasiriyah or an-Nasiriyah) is a city in Iraq. It is on the Euphrates River about 225 miles southeast of Baghdad, near the ruins of the ancient city of Ur.

Dez Dam (Asia / Southern Asia / Iran)

The Dez Dam is a large hydroelectric dam built in Iran in 1963 by an Italian consortium.

Ur (Asia / Western Asia / Iraq)

Ur was an ancient city in southern Mesopotamia, located near the original mouth of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers on the Persian Gulf and close to Eridu. It is considered to be the most known earliest civilization in world history.

Choqa Zanbil (Asia / Southern Asia / Iran / Ostān-e Khūzestān)

[model of the current Chogha Zanbil ziggurat, showing the other buildings in the vicinity of the main structure.][Zanbil ziggurat, Iran.

Haft Tepe (Asia / Southern Asia / Iran / Ostān-e Chahār Maḩāll va Bakhtīārī)

Haft Tepe is an archaeological site situated in the Khuzestan Province in southwestern Iran. At this site the remains of the Elamite city of Kabnak were discovered in 1908, and excavations are still carried out.

Amarah

Amarah (sometimes written al-'Amarah or Amara), is a city in southeastern Iraq, located next to the Tigris River waterway south of Baghdad, at . Predominantly Shiite, it had a population of about 340,000 as of 2002.

Great Ziggurat of Ur

The Great Ziggurat was built as a place of worship, dedicated to the moon god Nanna (or Sin), in the Sumerian city of Ur in ancient Mesopotamia (). The temple, a huge stepped platform, was constructed approximately in the 21st century BC by king Ur-Nammu.

Nippur

The city of Nippur [nipoor'] (Sumerian Nibru, Akkadian Nibbur) (now it is in Al Qadisyah Governorate) was one of the most ancient of all the Babylonian cities of which we have any knowledge, the special seat of the worship of the Sumerian god, Enlil, ruler of the cosmos subject to An alone. Indeed, in Sumerian cuneiform, the signs read 'Nibru' and 'Enlil' are the same.