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Qom

city in Qom Province, Iran
Place city_of_iran Q170573

Facts

21 properties

Identity

Instance of
city of Iran
Inception
805[14]
Official website
qom.ir[15]
Native label
قم[24]
Official name
قم[20]

Location

Country
Iran[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 34.640°, 50.876°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Central District[2]

Population and size

Area
+123.073[26]
Elevation above sea level
+935[25]
Population
+1201158[16]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 1,201,158 GeoNames 900,000 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗

Codes

Local dialing code
0251[13]
Postal code
37100[12]
More facts +8
Capital of
Qom County, Qom Province[18][19]
Demonym
Qomi, قمی, قمي[21][22][23]
Described by source
Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[17]
Economy of topic
economy of Qom
Head of government
Morteza Saghaeiannejad[4]
History of topic
timeline of Qom[27]
Official language
Persian[5]
Twinned administrative body
Baalbek, Konya, Karbala, Najaf, Santiago de Compostela, Karachi[6][7][8][9][10][11]
🏷️ Also known as
en Qum en Ghom en Qom ar قم المقدسة ar مدينة قم ar قم cs Kum cs Kom de Qum de Qom el Κομ es Qum fa شهر قم fi Qum fr Koum he קום hi कोम id Qum ja コム ja ゴム
🔖 Identifiers · 40
VIAF cluster ID
141846511
Library of Congress authority ID
n82131780
GND ID
4253094-5
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
SARASARNAMA Qom.JPG ↗
BBC Things ID
b1869e18-f361-4534-a4eb-3ce4c2a6794a
Canadiana Name Authority ID
ncf10470152
Dewey Decimal Classification
2--5526
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Qom
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
qom-qum
FAST ID
1222001
Facebook location ID
114850005198987
Freebase ID
/m/02zgp8
Show all 40 identifiers +28
GNS Unique Feature ID
-3080355
GeoNames ID
119208
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
1079254
GitHub topic
qom
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Qom
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
2121355
Grove Art Online ID
T070466
IdRef ID
050369458
Interlingual Index ID
i83575
KBpedia ID
Qom-ProvinceIran
Lex ID
Qom
MusicBrainz area ID
ebe2e0da-2469-459c-8aa1-956a7be80646
NL CR AUT ID
ge1153433
National Historical Museums of Sweden ID
geo/a1f0697e-66f8-45b9-9ecc-19fa4ac14162
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007562143005171
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
3924215
OpenStreetMap relation ID
8066775
OpenWeatherMap city ID
119208
Quora topic ID
Qom-Iran
SNARC ID
EinsPlus
TDV Encyclopedia of Islam ID
kum
Topic's main category
Category:Qom
Treccani ID
qom
Treccani's Dizionario di Storia ID
qum
Wellcome Collection concept ID
kbxycfj8
Who's on First ID
421199797
Wikimapia ID
4389640
Yale LUX ID
place/25725ef7-3743-4eb5-94c1-9f15c4323da5

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🔗 Connections
People born here 77
Hasan-i Sabbah, Ismail II, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Farrokhroo Parsa, Abdolrahim Mousavi, Al Sayed Musa al-Sadr, Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni, Shaykh Saduq +69 more
People who died here 37
Hussein-Ali Montazeri, Fātima bint Mūsā, Hossein Borujerdi, Lotfollah Safi Golpaygani, Rostom of Kartli, Ebrahim Amini, Mohammad-Taqi Bahjat Foumani, Mohammad Yazdi +29 more
Contained subdivisions 13
2026 Iran War, 2025–2026 Iranian protests, Al-Mustafa International University, Imam Hasan al-Askari Mosque, University of Qom, Ayatollah Marashi Najafi Library, Qom Urban Railway, Mofid University +5 more
Located in this place 12
2026 Iran War, Fatima Masumeh Shrine, Qom Hawza, 2022-23 serial poisoning of female students in Iran, 1978 Qom protest, Jameh Mosque of Qom, Azam Mosque of Qom, Chehel Akhtaran Mosque +4 more
← Place of burial 10
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, Abbas II of Persia, Mehdi Bazargan, Sahar Khodayari, Vossug ed Dowleh, Rostom of Kartli, David II of Kakheti, Vakhtang V of Kartli +2 more
← Category combines topics 7
Category:People from Qom, Category:Births in Qom, Category:Deaths in Qom, Category:Burials in Qom, Category:Sport in Qom, Category:Buildings and structures in Qom, Category:Transport in Qom
Twinned administrative body 6
Karachi, Santiago de Compostela, Konya, Karbala, Najaf, Baalbek
← Twinned administrative body 6
Karachi, Santiago de Compostela, Konya, Karbala, Najaf, Baalbek
Residents 5
Hasan-i Sabbah, Morteza Motahhari, Al Sayed Musa al-Sadr, Kazem al-Haeri, Sayed Kamal al-Haydari
← Headquarters location 5
Saba Qom F.C., Fedayeen of Islam, Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom, Muʼassasat Āl al-Bayt li-Iḥyāʼ al-Turāth, nšr adb al-ḥūzẗ
Capital of 2
Qom Province, Qom County
← Capital 2
Qom Province, Qom County
Category for people born here 1
Category:Births in Qom
Category for people buried here 1
Category:Burials in Qom
Category for people who died here 1
Category:Deaths in Qom
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Qom
Country 1
Iran
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Central District
Located in time zone 1
UTC+03:30
Named after 1
Qom rug
Official language 1
Persian
Owned entities 1
Qom Urban Railway
SNARC ID 1
EinsPlus
Topic's main category 1
Category:Qom
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Qom
← Significant place 1
COVID-19 pandemic in Iran
← Work location 1
Hossein Vahid Khorasani
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Summary

Qom is a city of Iran[1].

Body

Cultural Significance

Things named for Qom include Qom rug[28], a rug style[29], in Iran[30], founded in 1930[31].

Why It Matters

Entities named for Qom include Qom rug[28], a rug style[29], in Iran[30], founded in 1930[31].

Related Entities

Abbas II of Persia Abdolrahim Mousavi Al-Mustafa International University Baqir al-Olum University Farrokhroo Parsa Fatemiye University of Medical Sciences, Qom Fath-Ali Shah Qajar Hasan-i Sabbah Hussein-Ali Montazeri Imam Khomeini Education and Research Institute Iran Islamic Azad University of Qom Ismail II Karbala Konya Mehdi Bazargan Mofid University Mohammad Mahdi Bakhtiari Mohsen Fakhrizadeh University of Applied Science and Technology of Qom University of Qom University of Religions and Denominations

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  13. [14] ↑ . ketabnak.com. ketabnak.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  15. [16] ↑ . amar.org.ir. amar.org.ir. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  24. [25] ↑ . GeoNames. wikidata.org.
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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [31] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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