Bandar Abbas

Bandar Abbas (Abbas port) is 1484 km far from Tehran. The climate of this region is hot and humid. This port was called "Jordan Port" in 1555 and was a small village opposite to northern coast of Hormoz island. In the year 1514 Portuguese selected this village as land based point for cargo loading.

Due to abundance of crabs in this area, it was called "crab port" . In 1622, Shah Abbas cut the hands of Portuguese from this port by the help of England and in honor of this victory, this port became famous as Bandar Abbas. English and the Dutch constructed several beautiful buildings for commercial purposes. Most of commercial huge ships, which carried cargo for Iran and Ottoman from India, anchored in this port.

The Dutch, in the year 1741 constructed a new city in the midst of Bandar Abbas with permission of Iran Government.

Presently, Bandar Abbas is capital city of Hormozgan province and it is one of the most important strategic and commercial centres of Iran in the Persian Gulf and Omman Sea. Shahid Rajai Jetty Complex is a very huge landing place through which major barter of goods between Iran and other countries is accomplished.

Flights to Bandar Abbas with Iran Air

The city of Bandar Abbas is served by Bandar Abbas International Airpor.

Iran Air is operating many domestic flights to Bandar Abbas with Isfahan, Shiraz, Tehran-Mehrabad and Tabriz.