Asalouyeh

Asaluyeh (Persian: عسلويه, also Romanized as ‘Asalūyeh and Asalu, and sometimes prefixed by bandar, meaning port) is a city in and the capital of Asaluyeh District, in Kangan County, Bushehr Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 4,746, in 875 families. Located on the shore of the Persian Gulf some 270 km SE of the provincial capital of Bushehr, it is best known as the site for the land based facilities of the huge PSEEZ (Pars Special Energy Economic Zone) project. The town itself is of minor significance, although it is common practice to refer to PSEEZ (established 1998) and Asaluyeh town collectively as Asaluyeh. Asaluyeh was chosen as the site of the PSEEZ facilities due to it being the closest land point to the...