Iran has only two expanses of lowlands: the Khuzestan Plain in the southwest and the Caspian Sea coastal plain in the north.

On the Khuzestan Plain, summer heat is accompanied by high humidity.

Khuzestan Plain borders Mesopotamia and is separated from it by the Shatt al-Arab ( known as Arvand Rud in Iran ) river.

Abadan (, Arabic: عبادان, also Romanized as Ābādān ) is a city in and the capital of Abadan County, Khuzestan Province, Iran.

In some areas – especially in the center of Iranian plateau, Khorasan and Mazandaran Kabaddi is known as Zu / Zou (), in Gilan as Do-Do (), in Khuzestan as Ti-Ti () and in Sistan and Baluchestan as Kabaddi / Kabedi / Kavedi / Kaveddi / Kavaddi ().

Chogha Zanbil is an ancient Elamite complex in the Khuzestan province of Iran.

Shush is the administrative capital of the Shush County of Iran's Khuzestan province.

Much of the Khuzestan plain is covered with marshes.

The film is Merian C. Cooper, Ernest Schoedsack, and Marguerite Harrison's documentation of their journey from Angora ( modern-day Ankara, Turkey ) to the Bakhtiari lands of western Iran, in what is now the western part of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province and the eastern part of Khuzestan.

Elam () was an ancient civilization centered in the far west and southwest of modern-day Iran, stretching from the lowlands of what is now Khuzestan () and Ilam Province (), as well as a small part of southern Iraq.

He is born in 1955 in Ahvaz, Khuzestan, he earned a B. S.

Foolad Khuzestan Football Club () is an Iranian football club, based in Ahvaz, Khuzestan.

It was named Foolad partially because it is funded by the industry in Khuzestan.

Masjed Soleyman (; also Romanized as Masjed Soleymān, Masjed-e Soleymān, Masjed Soleiman, and Masjid-i-Sulaiman ) is a city in and the capital of Masjed Soleyman County, Khuzestan Province, Iran.

Of particular interest is the care shown by Amir Kabir for the economic development of Khuzestan ( then known as ʿArabestan ), identified by him as an area of strategic importance, given its location at the head of the Persian Gulf, and also of potential prosperity.

Khorramshahr (, Arabic: الم ُ ح ِ مرة, also Romanized as Khorramchahre and Khurramshahr ; also known as Khorram Shahr Ābādān and Khūnīn Shahr ; formerly, Al-Muhammarah, Mohammerah, and Muhammerah ) is a city in and the capital of Khorramshahr County, Khuzestan Province, Iran.

The largest winter concentration known is in Khuzestan, Iran.

Ahvaz (, also Romanized as Ahvāz ) is a city in and the capital of Khuzestan Province, Iran.

Dezful (, pronounced, also Romanized as Dezfūl, Dezfool, and Dīzfūl ) is a city in and the capital of Dezful County, Khuzestan Province, Iran.

North of Khuzestan is one of the oldest parts of the world civilization, Dezful Choghamish hills with more than 8, 000 years of treasures from different periods and archaeologists have called on the city of dawn. Susa Zanbil temple symbolizes the people of knowledge in this area over 3000 years ago. Apadana Palace, symbol of the greatness of the Iranian, Shushtar waterfalls symbol of Iranian engineering and technology, Dezful Old Bridge, symbol of Persian authority, Cole Farah izeh symbol of nobility of the people & etc.

Dezfūl is the primary commercial center for northern Khuzestan and one of the main producers of agricultural products in Iran.

Yadavaran Field oil field is one of the NIOC Recent Discoveries which is located in Khuzestan, Iran.

Laki language is spoken in the central Zagros region of Iran ( provinces of Lorestan, Ilam, Kermanshah, Hamedan, Qazvin, Khuzestan ) and in small parts of Iraq by the Lak people.

In 1959 Qasim antagonized Iran with a series of territory disputes, most notably over the Khuzestan region of Iran, which was home to an Arabic-speaking minority, and the division of the Shatt al-Arab waterway between south eastern Iraq and western Iran.

The Encyclopædia Britannica excludes " lowland Khuzestan " explicitly and characterizes Elam as spanning " the region from the Mesopotamian plain to the Iranian Plateau ".

The Arab population has established itself in Khuzestan mainly through the last 5 centuries of migration from neighbouring regions of Iraq well after the establishment of Iranic elements in the region.

However, bomb attacks in the region have led to a polarisation of opinion, with some Khuzestan representatives such as Ahwaz City representative Nasser Soudani calling for hardline measures against Arab dissent, which the government believes is being encouraged by British spies.

Not counting the caliph's new home region of Syria, nor Egypt ( including eastern Libya ; both only recently lost by Byzantium to the Sassanids ), these were Iraq and Mesopotamia ( both Arabized, around ancient Ctesiphon and modern Baghdad respectively around ancient Nineveh and modern Mosul ), Khuzestan around ancient Susa, still partly Arabic ), Armenia, Iberia ( i. e. Trans-Caucasian Georgia ), Arran-Schirwan ( east of it ) all three of the northern front, Azerbaijan ( a Turkic people ) and the ethnic heart of Iran ( Fars which is the eponymous home province, Djibal-the ancient Media -, Gilan, Tabaristan and Djurdjan ( all three on the Caspian Sea coast ), Kerman, Sistan and Khorasan ( including Herat in present Afghanistan ); under the Omayyad dynasty ( 661-750 ) the caliphate expanded further east, adding Sindh ( now southern Pakistan ), Zabulistan ( including Kabul and Ghazna, later the eponymous seat of a mighty break-away Ghaznavid dynasty ) and in Central Asia Tocharistan ( around Balkh ) and Transoxania ( Sogdia, Fergana and Mawara An-Nahr, with Samarkand ).

As the Timurid rule decayed, Khuzestan was taken over by the Msha ' sha ' iya, a Shi ' a millenarian sect who dominated the western region of the province from the middle of the 15th century to the 19th century.

The name Persian Gulf is written in upper left. Regional map showing the word Khuzestan, underlined in red, from the 9th century text Al-aqalim by the great geographer Istakhri. Although Herodotus and Xenophon referred to the entire region as Susiana, the name Khuzestan is what has been referred to the southwestern most province of Persia ( Iran ) from antiquity.

The word " Khuzestan ", however, seems to have been widely used to refer to the region by the 9th century.

The vast majority of Iran's crude oil reserves are located in giant onshore fields in the south-western Khuzestan region near the Iraqi border.

* The region of Khuzestan was also called " Arabistan " the east side of the Persian Gulf.

Elymais or Elamais ( Ἐλυμαΐς, Graecized form of the more ancient name, Elam ) was a semi-independent state of the 2nd century BC to the early 3rd century AD, frequently a vassalary under Parthian control, and located at the head of the Persian Gulf in the present-day region of Khuzestan, Iran ( Susiana ).

In September 1980, Abadan was almost overrun during a surprise attack on Khuzestan by Iraq, marking the beginning of the Iran – Iraq War.

Historically the Arvand Roud / Shatt-al-Arab waterway ( called Arvand Roud in Iran and Shatt-al-Arab in Iraq ) and Khuzestan Province was all that remained of their prior holdings in Mesopotamia, which had been lost to Turkey centuries earlier.

Iraq invaded Iran, first attacking Mehrabad Airport of Tehran and then entering the oil-rich Iranian land of Khuzestan, which also has a sizable Arab minority, on 22 September 1980 and declared it a new province of Iraq.

The southern, oil rich and prosperous Khuzestan and Basra area ( the main focus of the war, and the primary source of their economies ) were almost completely destroyed and were left at the pre 1979 border, while Iran managed to make some small gains on its borders in the Northern Kurdish area.

Also, the swastika symbol was found on a number of shards in the Khuzestan province of Iran and in inscriptions on pottery in the Neolithic Europe of the 5th millennium B. C.

* Veys, a city in Khuzestan Province, Iran

* Karta, Iran, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran

* Ati, Iran, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran

* Loran, Iran, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran

The Mandaeans of Iran lived chiefly in Ahvaz, Iranian Khuzestan, but have moved as a result of the Iraq-Iran War to other cities such as Tehran, Karaj and Shiraz.

The Mandaeans were fleeing persecution in the vilayet of Baghdad ( which, at the time, included Basra ) and Khuzestan in Iran.

* Masjid-I-Sulaiman, a city in the Khuzestan province in southwestern Iran

* Cham, Behbahan, Khuzestan Province, Iran

* Istgah-e Mazu, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran