Ahvaz

The city of Ahvaz (Persian: اهواز; Arabic: ‎ الأهواز), is the capital of the Iranian province of khuzestan . It is built on the banks of the Karun River and is situated in the middle of Khūzestān Province. The city has an average elevation of 20 meters above sea level.

The word Ahvaz is a Persianized form of the local Ahwaz, which in turn itself is derived from a Persian word. The Dehkhoda Dictionary specifically defines the Market of the Khuzis", where "Suq" is Persian word "chahar-suy/sugh" for market, and "Ahvaz" is a plural (اسم جمع) of the form "af'āl" (افعال) of the word "Huz", or more precisely, the root "ha wa za" ( َحَـوَز ), which itself comes from the Persian Huz, from Achaemenid inscriptions from where the term first appears. Thus, which refers to the non-Arabic original inhabitants of Khūzestān. More realistically, however, is that the word "Ahvaz" is Persianized form of the Arabic name of the city (الأحواز)

Ahvaz has a desert climate with long, extremely hot summers and mild, short winters. Summertime temperatures routinely exceed 50 degrees Celsius with many sandstorms and duststorms common during the summer period while in winters the minimum temperature could fall around -5 degrees Celsius with snow also present. The average annual rainfall is around 230 mm