Izeh
City in Khuzestan province, Iran
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Izeh (Persian: ايذه)[a] (Luri : مالمیر) is a city in the Central District of Izeh County, Khuzestan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.[4]
Izeh has mines of rocks and minerals. It is famous for its dam and ancient monuments that are located in Kul-e Farah, Eshkaft-e Salman, Khongazhdar, Tagh-e Tavileh, Shir-e Sangi (Stone Lion cemetery), Shahsavar relief, Khong-e Kamalvand, Khong-e Azhdar, Khong-e Yaralivand, Ghalesard village (Qalesard), and Sheyvand relief.
Demographics
Language
The majority of the population in Izeh speaks the Bakhtiari dialect of the Luri language.[5]
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 103,695 in 20,127 households.[6] The following census in 2011 counted 117,093 people in 27,084 households.[7] The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 119,399 people in 30,066 households.[2]
Climate
Izeh has a Hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) with scorching, rainless summers and comfortable, somewhat wet winters with cold and often freezing mornings.
| Climate data for Izeh (1993-2005) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 24.0 (75.2) |
24.0 (75.2) |
29.0 (84.2) |
35.4 (95.7) |
42.0 (107.6) |
46.0 (114.8) |
46.6 (115.9) |
45.8 (114.4) |
42.6 (108.7) |
37.8 (100.0) |
32.0 (89.6) |
27.2 (81.0) |
46.6 (115.9) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 14.2 (57.6) |
15.9 (60.6) |
19.3 (66.7) |
25.4 (77.7) |
32.9 (91.2) |
39.1 (102.4) |
41.4 (106.5) |
41.7 (107.1) |
37.5 (99.5) |
31.1 (88.0) |
22.1 (71.8) |
16.9 (62.4) |
28.1 (82.6) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 9.5 (49.1) |
10.6 (51.1) |
13.4 (56.1) |
18.6 (65.5) |
24.7 (76.5) |
30.1 (86.2) |
33.1 (91.6) |
32.9 (91.2) |
28.3 (82.9) |
23.0 (73.4) |
15.9 (60.6) |
11.7 (53.1) |
21.0 (69.8) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 4.8 (40.6) |
5.2 (41.4) |
7.5 (45.5) |
11.7 (53.1) |
16.4 (61.5) |
21.0 (69.8) |
24.8 (76.6) |
24.1 (75.4) |
19.2 (66.6) |
14.9 (58.8) |
9.7 (49.5) |
6.6 (43.9) |
13.8 (56.9) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −6.8 (19.8) |
−3.8 (25.2) |
−0.4 (31.3) |
1.6 (34.9) |
7.6 (45.7) |
12.0 (53.6) |
18.8 (65.8) |
14.6 (58.3) |
13.6 (56.5) |
5.2 (41.4) |
−1.2 (29.8) |
−1.0 (30.2) |
−6.8 (19.8) |
| Average rainfall mm (inches) | 154.5 (6.08) |
106.9 (4.21) |
121.0 (4.76) |
63.5 (2.50) |
11.8 (0.46) |
0.6 (0.02) |
1.1 (0.04) |
0.6 (0.02) |
0.1 (0.00) |
6.8 (0.27) |
84.6 (3.33) |
142.6 (5.61) |
694.1 (27.3) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 1 mm) | 9.7 | 7.0 | 8.9 | 5.8 | 1.8 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 6.4 | 8.2 | 49.7 |
| Average snowy days | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.5 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 65 | 60 | 58 | 50 | 30 | 19 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 29 | 50 | 62 | 40 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 177.3 | 187.4 | 211.8 | 239.3 | 313.0 | 365.6 | 354.7 | 351.4 | 323.3 | 280.0 | 212.3 | 177.0 | 3,193.1 |
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Notable people
- Iman Mobali Iranian retired football player and coach
- Pouya Dadmarz Iranian Greco-Roman wrestler
- Ramin Taheri Iranian Greco-Roman wrestler
- Aref Aghasi Iranian footballer
- Iman Mohammadi Iranian Greco-Roman wrestler
- Behrouz Jamshidi Iranian Greco-Roman wrestler
- Safdar Hosseini Iranian academic and politician
- Ali Landi student who saved the lives of two elderly women in a fire[9]
- Ali Salehi Iranian poet and writer
- Mahmoud Rahmani Iranian documentary filmmaker
- Sajjad Kouchaki Iranian retired
- Barat Ghobadian
