High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Road 72 is a transit road connecting southwest Iran to central Iran. It passes Borujen, Mountainous areas of Zagros, Karun 3 dam, Izeh, Baghmalek and Ramhormoz then it goes into Road 86 and reaches Ahvaz. The city of Ahvaz or Ahwaz, is the capital of the Iranian province of Kh zest n. It is built on the banks of the Karun River and is situated in the middle of Kh zest n Province. The city has an average elevation of 20 meters above sea level. The city had a population of 1,338,126 in 2006. The term "Huz", meanwhile, is the Old Persian rendition of Suz (Susa-Susiana), the native Elamite name of the region. Old Persian commonly changed the initial "s" in a foreign word into an "h," most famously, in its rendition of the name the river and the people Sindh/Sindhi into Hind/Hindi, which was then Hellenized into Indus, whence India.